Peter Hirschfeld reports: Senate lawmakers have voted to halt the Douglas administration’s plans to monitor the web-viewing habits of thousands of state employees. In a unanimous voice vote this week, the Senate approved an amendment, attached to the budget bill, that would forbid human resources managers from tracking the Internet activity of Vermont employees working…
Category: Laws
TransUnion battling attempts to ban employment credit checks
Julie Wernau reports: TransUnion, the Chicago-based credit reporting agency controlled by the powerful Pritzker family, is fighting to preserve the use of credit checks in employment screening, even as several states, including Illinois, threaten to outlaw the practice in most circumstances as discriminatory. […] TransUnion has publicly defended credit checks as a way for employers…
Should you own your own data?
Andrew Orlowski writes: Privacy campaigners have long advocated that we should own our data, and we should be able to do what we like with it. So why has an attempt to put this into law caused a minor panic? A Michigan Senator has introduced a Bill giving individuals the right to request the removal…
Senators raise privacy concerns about Facebook expansion, call for simpler user controls
It’s not just Senator Chuck Schumer anymore. Michael Liedtke of the Associated Press reports: Four U.S. senators want Facebook to make it easier for its more than 400 million users to protect their privacy as the website develops new outlets to share personal information. The call for simpler privacy controls came in a letter that…