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…
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UK: Tracking Devices to be Issued to the NHS Staff for Their Safety
Back in December, Prakash Shama reported: NHS staff in Scotland will be provided tracking devices as their security has been threatened from stalkers. Under a new policy to ensure the safety of the NHS staff, the GPS technology will be employed, as announced by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, which has 44,000 employees. With the…
AMA Responds to Wall Street Journal Lawsuit on Physician Payment Data
Leigh Page reports that the American Medical Association has issued a statement in response to a lawsuit filed by Dow Jones seeking to overturn a long-standing ruling that denied the press access to physicians’ Medicare payment records: In a statement, AMA President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, argued that physicians have a right to keep complex…
Ca: E-mail access denial challenged by IPC
David Canton writes: When a government employee uses his or her workplace e-mail address to send and receive personal e-mails unrelated to their work, are those e-mails subject to disclosure to members of the public who request them under freedom of information legislation? Despite that these e-mails are generated on government computers, stored on government…