Joseph Lazzarotti and John Snyder comment on Cambridge Who’s Who Publishing v. Sethi, a case recently covered on DataBreaches.net because of its reference to an alleged data breach that had never been reported in the media. Of significance to me, the court ruled that Cambridge Who’s Who could not get an injunction that would stop…
Category: Workplace
2 University of Iowa employees disciplined for snooping with baby monitor
The Associated Press has more on a situation that I mentioned yesterday on phiprivacy.net involving employee snooping in a hospital environment. But in this case, employees were both the potential snoopees as well as the snoopers: A University of Iowa hospital supervisor abruptly left employment Thursday as the school announced it had disciplined two employees…
NC: Bill pits public right vs. privacy
Fred Clasen-Kelly reports: A legislative proposal that would grant citizens access to performance evaluations and other details about government employees in North Carolina has pitted the public’s right to know against worker privacy. At an open government conference Thursday, a city of Charlotte official blasted the proposal, saying it was “a complete invasion” of privacy….
AZ: County employees unhappy about saliva test
UPI reports: An Arizona county is trying to get reliable data on whether its employees are smokers by testing saliva, a move some workers are resisting. “They gotta do what they gotta do, but it is kind of an invasion of our privacy,” Dee Webber, a Maricopa County accounting employee and admitted smoker, told The…