For four or five months, a microphone recorded conversations without the knowledge of civilian employees working inside the Police Department’s records office. Digital recordings of their conversations were fed to a supervisor’s computer, allowing the supervisor to listen to everything said inside the records office from a different floor in police headquarters and in real-time….
Category: Workplace
Employee sacked for smutty emails is reinstated
A worker sacked for sending dozens of grubby emails has got his job back after successfully arguing that the correspondence was part of a wider work culture. Philip Walker said a culture of sending emails “where the content was not likely to offend and was banter between colleagues” existed at his Safe Air workplace in…
Aussie ‘Big Brother’ hospital plan irks docs
The State Government has a secret plan to track the movement of staff around the new Royal Children’s Hospital using radio tags, which has outraged unions and raised fears of setting a precedent in employee surveillance. Doctors say the plan smacks of Big Brother, and they will refuse to wear the tags when the hospital…
New DHS requirements raise eyebrows
From FCW: Privacy advocates are puzzled and dismayed by the Homeland Security Department’s recent addition of new categories of personal information it plans to collect and store for all employees, contractors and volunteers who regularly access DHS facilities. The new categories of information include mother’s maiden name and financial history, according to a June 25…