Adam Klasfeld reports: An executive facing civil securities fraud charges cannot use marital privilege to protect emails he sent to his wife from a work account, a federal judge ruled on Monday. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil fraud action in May 2009 against Reserve Management Co., chairman Bruce Bent Sr., vice chairman…
Category: Workplace
Ca: Why employers need computer privacy policies
Stuart Rudner writes: Many employers assume that if they own a computer, BlackBerry or other device that has been issued to an employee, they are automatically entitled to access the information stored on it. However, the highest court in Ontario has ruled that unless otherwise stated in the employer’s policy, employees have a reasonable expectation…
UK: Bradford Council settles with former Nab Wood School worker ‘put under surveillance’
Steve Wright reports: A former school worker, who claimed she was spied on by Bradford Council when it was wrongly suspected she was moonlighting while on sick leave, has settled a claim for damages outside Court. Shamim Khan, 47, of Heaton, Bradford, had brought the claim against the Council for psychiatric injury caused by unlawful surveillance…
Ninth Circuit Holds That Violating Any Employer Restriction on Computer Use “Exceeds Authorized Access” (Making It a Federal Crime)
Orin Kerr writes: I had though the world was safe from the nuttiness of the Justice Department’s broad theories of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the Lori Drew case. Not so. Readers may recall I once blogged about a similar case, United States v. Nosal, that raised similar issues in the context of an employee…