Tam Harbert reports: Michael Workman, an associate professor at the Florida Institute of Technology‘s Nathan M. Bisk College of Business who studies IT security and behavior at corporations, estimates that monitoring responsibilities take up at least 20% of the average IT manager’s time. Yet most IT professionals never expected they’d be asked to police their…
Category: Workplace
Province ran unauthorized credit checks on employees
Trish Audette reports: Provincial government employees were subjected to unauthorized credit checks earlier this year, officials confirmed Tuesday. The credit checks — Alberta Justice collected personal information on 27 employees — are now the focus of an investigation by the privacy commissioner. “There’s nothing stopping the employer from investigating employees on certain levels. But there…
Workers concerned over privacy breach
David Hutton reports: A Saskatoon FedEx worker is concerned about a privacy breach where the addresses of about 25 local employees were leaked from Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) to the union trying to organize the global courier service. “It’s concerning,” said Tracy Gibson, a FedEx employee for 12 years. “If it’s that easy to get…
Release of Random Drug Testing Results Raise HIPAA Challenge
I posted this to PHIprivacy.net, but since it also involves a workplace situation, thought I’d post it here too: Curt Varone writes: Fire Lieutenant Shawn Baptist was fired last year from the Zephyrhills, Florida Fire Department after he allegedly failed a random drug test on February 23, 2009. He is challenging the termination as well…