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…
Category: Workplace
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…
Ca: Montreal city hall addresses BlackBerry privacy
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…