The Homeland Security Department is updating and expanding its record collection to include new categories of personal information on all employees, contractors and volunteers who regularly need access to DHS facilities. The new categories of information include maiden name, mother’s maiden name, clearance level, identifying physical information, financial history, duty date and weapons-bearer designation, states…
Category: Workplace
Investigation into Bozeman hiring policy
When the Bozeman City recently rescinded its policy of requiring job applicants to provide their login details to social media sites, it might have seemed to be the end of that poorly thought-out policy. But the policy was in effect for three years, and now the Bozeman City Commission has voted to begin an investigation…
Spy society: astonishing amount of personal data
Have you ever been tempted to try to find out what information about you is out there in databases? Matt Roper did just that, and sent out requests under the UK’s Data Protection Act to 46 organizations, requesting copies of all of his information. What he got back was a 2-foot high pile of records…
Employer online monitoring meets resistance
[…] Deloitte LLP’s 2009 Ethics & Workplace Survey, released in May, found a big gap between employers and employees on whether businesses should be able to monitor Internet behavior off the clock. Sixty percent of the business executives surveyed said they had a right to know how their organizations were portrayed by employees in online…