Montreal officials may have a somewhat greater expectation of privacy in their employer-issued devices than their counterparts elsewhere. The Montreal Gazette reports: The city of Montreal has advised elected officials their calls and messages on city-issued BlackBerries are confidential. Only the name and work address of the BlackBerry subscriber and the cost and time period…
Category: Workplace
Md. AG: Requiring employees’ personal passwords is legal
Neal Augenstein reports: Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler says requiring a prospective state employee to turn over his social networking user names and passwords as a condition of employment could be appropriate and legal, WTOP has learned. A day after Maryland’s Department of Public Safety and Corrections suspended the practice, which it used to root…
Maryland Agency Stops Asking Interviewees for Facebook Login
As I noted yesterday in an update to the original blog entry, the Maryland Department of Corrections has issued a 45-day moratorium on asking employees and applicants for their Facebook login after the Maryland ACLU went public with the situation and the story got spread far and wide. Alexis Madrigal, who had helped call attention…
Supreme Court Defers on Constitutional Right to Information Privacy; Scalia Predicts Increased Litigation
Bret Cohen writes: On January 19, the Supreme Court decided NASA v. Nelson, a case brought by NASA contractors alleging that questions asked by the federal agency in a background check violated their constitutional right to information privacy — i.e., a constitutional privacy interest in the government “avoiding the disclosure of personal matters” recognized in a pair of…