Ben Grubb reports: About 40 per cent of IT administrators go snooping through emails of employees, particularly those of high-level executives, claims the chief executive of a firm that manages the IT security of various Australian companies and government agencies. A company’s IT admins have access to virtually every document company-wide – including executive files,…
Category: Workplace
Banning Forced Disclosure of Social Network Passwords and the Polygraph Precedent
Over on Concurring Opinions, Peter Swire is guest-blogging: The Maryland General Assembly has just become the first state legislature to vote to ban employers’ from requiring employees to reveal their Facebook or other social network passwords. Other states are considering similar bills, and Senators Schumer and Blumenthal are pushing the idea in Congress. As often happens in…
Japanese gov’t ran background checks on civil servants without permission
Everywhere you go, there’s the risk of unchecked government surveillance. From The Mainichi: National civil servants handling secret information have been subjected to background checks without their permission and with no legal foundation for at least the past three years, it has been discovered. More than 53,000 civil servants in almost every central government ministry…
Maryland becomes first state to ban employers from asking for social media passwords
Kevin Rector reports: Employers in Maryland would be prohibited from asking current and prospective employees for their user names and passwords to websites such as Facebook and Twitter under legislation that passed the General Assembly and now awaits signature from Gov. Martin O’Malley. Read more in the Baltimore Sun. Because it was a Maryland state…