Today’s theme seems to be surveillance. Gary Pinnell reports: Administrator Michael Wright said Thursday he will sign an agreement with three former employees, who have decided not to pursue a wrongful termination appeal against Highlands County. “We have worked out an agreement with the county,” said Jim McCollum, the attorney for Treasa Handley, Jared Lee…
Category: Workplace
EFF to Press for New Privacy Protections Against Hidden Video Surveillance in Senate Hearing Monday
From EFF: On Monday, March 29, at 10 a.m., the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing in the Philadelphia federal courthouse on whether the federal electronic privacy laws need to be updated to better regulate secret video surveillance. Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston of the…
Axed via Facebook: what’s your reaction?
I don’t know U.K. privacy laws, but I have to wonder about a news story I saw on an Australian publication, The Age, and the reaction of The Age‘s online commenters. As background, it seems a teenager in Greater Manchester was fired via Facebook posting by her supervisor at the Cookies coffee shop in Leigh…
Privacy groups urge Supreme Court to protect text message privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the United States Supreme Court today to ensure that modern communications methods such as text messages retain the constitutional privacy protections applied to earlier technologies. In an amicus brief in City of Ontario v. Quon, EFF sided with a public employee who was allowed personal use of his work…