The Deutsche Telekom spying trial took a dramatic turn on its opening day Friday when the main accused, Klaus Trzeschan, made a partial admission and incriminated the company’s then boss Kai-Uwe Ricke. Trzeschan, the former head of company security, told a court in Bonn that the gathering of phone records had been carried out “without…
Category: Workplace
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Attorney Objects to Bizarre Seminar for Guys
Without a doubt, this has to be one of the weirdest workplace-related privacy lawsuits I have come across, even though the complaint doesn’t specifically mention privacy. Jamie Ross of Courthouse News reports: An attorney says he was forced to quit his job after a law firm docked his pay because he refused to go to…
Snooping on a snoop: RCMP installed hidden cameras in Montreal detective’s HQ
RCMP investigators testified in court Thursday how they installed hidden cameras to spy on detectives suspected of snooping into confidential databases then passing that information along to criminals. Montreal police detective Mario Lambert is accused of unlawfully retrieving information about license plates and car ownerships in exchange for payments from criminals. In court, RCMP investigators…