The Government’s new database of paedophiles must be reviewed because some people will be caught up in it unnecessarily, according to Sir Michael Bichard. […] His comments come as it was disclosed that the controversial database has suffered a security breach even before its official launch. A message containing confidential data was sent to the…
Category: Workplace
Deutsche Bahn spied on employee health records too
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn, still reeling from a spy scandal earlier this year, admitted on Tuesday it had secretly and illegally monitored the health records of some of its employees. “The Deutsche Bahn management has received indications that the group’s security division collected employees’ illness-related information and circulated it within the group,” the firm…
Workplace surveillance lawsuit tossed
The California Supreme Court Monday rejected a lawsuit filed against a Southern California residential children’s center by two clerical workers who learned there was a surveillance camera hidden in their office. The camera and a related motion detector were set up by officials at the Hillsides Children’s Center in Los Angeles County in 2002 in…
NH AG upholds wiretap ruling
Acting New Hampshire Attorney General Orville Fitch announced Friday no crime was committed when the conversations of civilian employees in the city Police Department’s records office were recorded without their knowledge, upholding County Attorney Jim Reams’ earlier review of the matter. In a news release, Fitch said his office reviewed Reams’ three-page report, which advised…