Ben Schneiders reports: How much privacy does an employee have when using a work laptop at home? Not much, it seems, after a senior public servant was sacked after Googling the word “knockers” and looking at legal pornography. That was despite the access being out of work hours and the public servant using his own…
Category: Workplace
Ca: Management Ethics: Privacy issues
The Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Management Ethics (pdf) from ethicscentre.ca has a nice collection of articles: Why Privacy Matters – Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Privacy by Design: Achieving Consumer Trust and Freedom in the Information Age – Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. Hiring in a Social Media Age – Avner Levin, SJD Privacy Law: Questions and Answers – Christine Lonsdale H/T, @_pidder_
UK: Anonymity proposed for teachers accused by pupils
Jaron Lewis writes: The controversial Education Bill was published on 26 January 2011. A proposed new restriction (clause 13 of the Bill) will apply where a pupil or their representative makes an allegation that their teacher has committed a criminal offence against a registered pupil at the teacher’s school. It will prohibit the publication of…
AU: Review of the Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW)
From the introduction of a recent submission of the Australian Privacy Foundation to the NSW Attorney General’s Department: The Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW) (‘the Act’) replaced the Workplace Video Surveillance Act 1998 (NSW) (‘the WVSA’), which only applied to video camera surveillance. The new Act also applies to additional forms of surveillance including email…