Tim Cushing explains: It’s not just the CFAA that can be abused. This law — recently trimmed a bit by the US Supreme Court — has been abused for years to go after web scrapers, researchers, and information-wants-to-be-free activists. The recent ruling does narrow the scope of that law a bit, but the CFAA still has the potential to do serious…
Category: Workplace
Norwegian DPA: Fine for accessing former employee’s e-mail inbox and failing to close e-mail inbox
The background for this case is a complaint from a former employee who discovered that their former employer had accessed their e-mail account. The manager of the enterprise had changed the password and logged on to the complainant’s e-mail account every day for a period of six weeks after the employment had ended. The manager…
The Icelandic DPA has fined a company running ice cream parlours for processing employee‘s personal data via video surveillance camera installed in an employee area.
The Icelandic Data Protection Authority has issued an administrative fine in the amount of ISK 5.000.000 (34.000 euros) to an Icelandic company that runs five ice cream parlours. One of the company‘s underage employees lodged a complaint with the Icelandic DPA about an area, used by the employees‘ to change into their work uniform, being…
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