Michael Fitzpatrick reports: Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff. Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has developed technology that tracks even the tiniest movement of the user and beams the information back to HQ. It works by analysing…
Category: Workplace
Supreme Court to take up background checks
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that I’ve been following on PogoWasRight.org since 2007. From SCOTUS blog: In another case bearing on claims of privacy, the Court Monday added to its decision docket a case involving the broad issue of whether the Constitution protects a “right of informational privacy” — that is,…
Faculty on Facebook: Privacy concerns raised by suspension
Jack Stripling reports: Whether it’s avoiding bars frequented by students or politely declining the occasional social invitation, professors often make an extra effort to establish boundaries with their students. But social networking sites, which are often more public than they may appear, are lifting the veil on the private lives of professors in ways they…
Impact of French employee e-mail ruling on U.S. e-discovery
Trevor Jefferies and Alvin F. Lindsay comment: A new decision released on 8 January 2010 from the French high labor court (the Cour de Cassation Chambre Sociale) may provide some grounds for arguing that a party in France can review a French employee’s e-mails and electronically stored information to determine whether the data is relevant…