Ellen Nakashima and Lisa Rein report: The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it monitored the personal e-mails of employees who had concerns about unsafe medical devices beginning in April 2010 but said it did so to investigate allegations that the employees had leaked confidential information to the public. The FDA’s statement came in…
Category: Workplace
Trustwave admits crafting SSL snooping certificate
Trustwave would probably prefer us all to be discussing their new data breach analysis report they issued this week. Instead, they are getting a lot of negative press over a man-in-the-middle certificate they issued that allowed a firm to snoop on its employees’ e-mail. John Leyden of The Register explains: Certificate Authority Trustwave has revoked a…
NY: Drawing Fire, Deal Gives Agency Staff Power to See State Workers’ Tax Files
Thomas Kaplan reports: Lawmakers and labor unions on Monday pointedly criticized a secret decision by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration to greatly expand the state inspector general’s access to tax returns filed by state employees. The State Department of Taxation and Finance signed an agreement last month with the inspector general’s office to allow dozens…
IL: Bill would ban employers asking for personal passwords
WJBC reports: Businesses may soon be banned from requiring potential employees to divulge their social media passwords, for sites such as Facebook and Twitter, during the hiring process. State Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago) said getting access to an applicant’s account not only gives employers access to personal social information but sometimes sensitive banking information…