Today, the Maryland Department of Corrections released a letter describing a revised social media policy, in response to a complaint from the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland asking DOC to rescind their blanket policy demanding personal social media passwords from corrections officers and applicants as part of the employment certification process. The ACLU’s January…
Category: Workplace
Log-in demand crosses line
David Canton writes: It [sic] not unusual for employers to conduct Google searches on prospective employees or check their public social media feeds. But prospective employer’s requests for job applicants’ social media log-in IDs and passwords crosses the line. Unfortunately, some people have felt no choice but to comply given the unequal bargaining power between…
Bizarre Incident in a Manager’s Living Room
Well, I’m not sure if this is a workplace privacy issue or not, but it is such a bizarre situation that I thought I’d mention it here. From Nestor F. Sebastian of Courthouse News: A manager whose outburst at his TV set was accidentally recorded by a co-worker’s voicemail says Verizon fired him for his…
Ca: Breach of privacy case holds lessons for IT departments
Kathleen Lau reports: IT managers should heed the court ruling that found it to be a breach of privacy when police copied an employee’s hard drive without a warrant, even if child pornography was found. Why there must be a balance between corporate ownership and legal searching. An Ontario court judgment last week, which found…