Manuel Valdes and Shannon McFarland of Associated Press report on the disturbing and increasing practice of employers asking job applicants for their social media logins. “It’s akin to requiring someone’s house keys,” said Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor and former federal prosecutor who calls it “an egregious privacy violation.” Orin got that…
Category: Workplace
AU: Desal union takes legal action over privacy breach
Construction unions have taken court action to retrieve personal details of up to 18,000 workers collected by employers at the Wonthaggi desalination plant, in Victoria’s east. The unions say the information collected by Thiess Degremont was passed on to the Tasmanian strike breaking contractor Bruce Townsend. Bill Oliver from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy…
Florida first state to randomly drug-test state workers
James L. Rosica of Associated Press reports that Florida has become the first state to enact a law allowing state agencies to be randomly drug test employees. So to get a job in 2013, you may have to give up your social media and e-mail logins… You may have to consent to being drug-tested…. You…
UCDavis police want privacy preserved
Matt Krupnick reports: An Alameda County judge on Tuesday delayed a University of California report on November’s pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters at UC Davis after police officers said they were concerned about privacy. Lawyers for the union representing UC police argued the report might contain confidential information about the officers involved and asked Superior Court…