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…
Category: Workplace
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…
Israels’ National Labour Court severely restricts monitoring of employee email accounts
In a 91-page opinion the National Labour Court recently laid down a clear set of rules regarding an employer’s right to monitor its employees’ email messages and other employee uses of workplace IT systems.(1) The rules impose severe restrictions on employers’ rights, subsequently calling for employers to consider modification and reform of their employee privacy…