Ellen Nakashima and Lisa Rein report: The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. The surveillance — detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed by…
Category: Workplace
Final word on employee expectations of privacy given to Supreme Court
A controversial case dealing with a teacher’s privacy in the wake of child pornography charges is going to Canada’s top court. Sudbury, Ont., teacher Richard Cole was charged with possessing child pornography after explicit images of a 16-year-old female student were found on his work laptop computer, which Cole had obtained after accessing another student’s…
CT: Attorney Charges Breach Of Privacy In D-SNAP
Christopher Keating reports: An attorney for state employees is charging that the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made a “huge breach of privacy” involving the release of the Social Security numbers of state employees who are under investigation for food stamp fraud. The names were included on a subpoena and were released to other…
FR: Appeal court authorizes seizure of entire electronic mailbox contents
Joseph Vogel writes: Two undertakings that were subject to investigatory searches by the Competition Authority have complained of the mass undifferentiated seizure of their electronic mailboxes. The mailboxes contained items unrelated to the investigation, including personal and private emails and correspondence with the undertakings’ lawyers. According to the Competition Authority, the current state of IT…