Tom Whitehead reports: The system of investigating people’s backgrounds for employment vetting much be overhauled because it is wrongly “tilted” in favour of protecting the public, the Supreme Court concluded. It said this meant that individual rights could be damaged by “unreliable” or “out of date” details, especially with the use of so-called soft intelligence…
Category: Workplace
Job seekers’ private data endangered by faulty system
Data protection deficiencies at the Federal Employment Agency (BA) are far more serious than previously reported, daily Frankfurter Rundschau reported on Friday. The agency has massive problems with a computer system in use across the nation, according to letters sent to the paper by BA staff councils, who called the situation dangerous to privacy laws,…
Sun’s new info policy angers channel
Jeff Jedras reports: A request by Sun Microsystems that its partners provide it with confidential information about ownership, employees and contractors has angered a number of members of its partner community and left them wondering what right the vendor has to such information. Not all partners appear to have received the request and some declined…
Daimler slammed for controversial blood tests
German luxury carmaker Daimler has come under fire for carrying out blood tests on potential employees. A leading privacy advocate has condemned the practice as illegal and called for the information to be deleted. The automobile concern has defended the procedure as “completely normal” and denied any legal violations. Daimler spokeswoman Dominique Albrecht said health…