USA Today has a story by Ronald Blum of the Associated Press reporting that federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to stay its decision [pdf] that government agents illegally seized the drug testing records and samples of more than 100 major league baseball players (see this post for previous coverage of the decision and…
Category: Workplace
Email Snooping Can Be Intrusion Upon Seclusion
Attorney Evan D. Brown discusses a case that sheds some light on how courts may view a privacy invasion claim of “intrusion on seclusion” when a firm’s employee email is hosted in the cloud: Local elected official Steinbach had an email account that was issued by the municipality. Third party Hostway provided the technology for…
Lidl fined for data protection violations
The Privacy and Information Security Law Blog reports that earlier this month, the state DPA in North Rhine-Westphalia fined a subsidiary of the discount supermarket chain Lidl € 36,000 (approximately $51,000) for illegally keeping records of employee health data. To compound the employee privacy breach with a security breach, it seems that the case was…
The problem with polygraph testing
Arif Bulkan reports on the use of polygraph testing in Guyana: In the midst of all the gripping revelations coming out of a Brooklyn courtroom alleging corruption at the highest levels of the government of Guyana, another drama involving corruption has been unfolding locally. However, this one involves a few far down on the totem…