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…
Category: Workplace
Your Email Is Not Private (On One Side of the Hudson)
Adam B. writes: … NYC doctor’s office. Doctor installs keystroke logging software on an office computer and doesn’t tell anyone, and tells an employee to only use that computer. Doctor uses the results of the keystroke logging software to log into the employee’s personal email account, review emails, print out some of them, and emails…
Surprised Employer Fires Sex Blogger
Courtney Rubin reports: A St. Louis-area nonprofit has fired a 37-year-old office worker – after discovering that in her own time, the woman blogs about her polyamorous escapades. The blogger – a single mother whose blog is called “The Beautiful Kind” – told St. Louis’s The Riverfront Times she “really was Clark Kent” about keeping…
Suspicious Package: TSA Worker Jailed After Junk Joke
Willard Shepard and Brian Hamacher report: Perhaps the new airport body scanners are a bit too revealing. A TSA worker in Miami was arrested for aggravated battery after police say he attacked a colleague who’d made fun of his small genitalia after he walked through one of the new high-tech security scanners during a recent…