From EFF, an update on a long-running battle over employee background checks at NASA (links to some of the previous coverage on this case can be found in PogoWasRight.org’s archives, here): The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the United States Supreme Court Monday to uphold an appeals court decision that blocks invasive and unnecessary background…
Category: Workplace
Wis. Supreme Court rules on e-mail privacy (updated)
The Associated Press reports: Wisconsin government employees can safely send personal e-mail messages on their work computers without worrying that they will have to make them public, under a ruling Friday by the state Supreme Court. The court ruled that just because a public employee uses a work computer to send an e-mail, it doesn’t…
MN: Teacher’s rights violated when she was named in investigation of gay slurs, judge rules
Nancy Ngo reports: A judge has ruled the Minnesota Department of Human Rights violated the privacy of an Anoka-Hennepin school district teacher accused of making comments about a student’s perceived homosexuality by releasing the instructor’s name. Ramsey County District Judge Dale Lindman ruled late last week in favor of the teacher, Diane Cleveland, on two…
UK: Woman fined for giving workers’ information away
A woman who disclosed personal information about foreign workers who her employers supplied to other firms has been fined £250. Nicola Read, 31, of Fryslea, Dibden Purlieu, admitted breaching the Data Protection Act while working for Totton and Gosport-based Green Personnel. Read more in the Southern Daily Echo.