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…
Category: Workplace
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…
Lawsuit Wants SEC to ID Porn Snoopers
Jim McElhatton reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission is facing a federal lawsuit for keeping secret the names of dozens of its supervisors, employees and contractors who spent their workdays looking at pornography on their government computers. The lawsuit, filed Friday by a Denver- and Washington-based law firm, accuses the SEC of violating federal open-records…