Meredith Curtis of the ACLU of Maryland describes a case that should concern us all: Maryland corrections officer Robert Collins approached the ACLU of Maryland late last year, disturbed that he was required to provide his Facebook login and password to the Maryland Division of Corrections (DOC) during a recertification interview. He had to sit…
Category: Workplace
Could Your Firm’s E-Mail Policy Run Afoul of the Federal Wiretap Act?
Philip L. Gordon writes: Once seen only in the shadows of the war against organized crime, the Federal Wiretap Act should now be moving steadily and rapidly toward the top of the corporate compliance checklist. Robust civil remedies, recent court decisions and technological developments have transformed the act’s risk profile from a non-event to a…
Deleting E-mails Can Constitute a “Damage” Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Joseph Lazzarotti writes: What is a company’s recourse when a former employee deletes e-mails and other company electronic information before he leaves? A case from Indiana provides a lesson. When Meridian Financial Advisors began serving as Receiver for bankrupted OCMC, Inc., it took possession of a number of OCMC computers, including one belonging to Joseph A….
Israel’s National Labor Court Imposes Strict Limits on Employee Monitoring
Boris Segalis writes: Dan Or-Hof, a privacy and technology partner at the Israeli law firm Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer is reporting that a decision by Israel’s National Labor Court imposes severe restrictions on the employers’ ability to monitor employee emails. Organizations with employees in Israel must promptly take steps to verify that their employee monitoring…