Sara Merken reports: A U.S. appeals court has rejected a bid by a Pennsylvania State University employee to revive her lawsuit against two state officials, finding they didn’t violate a federal electronic communications law when getting the school to hand over her emails. Read more on Reuters.
Category: Workplace
Dutch DPA Publishes Recommendations Regarding COVID-19 and Privacy in the Workplace
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, the “Dutch DPA”) recently published materials regarding the COVID-19 crisis, including recommendations and FAQs for employers and recommendations for employees. In the materials, the Dutch DPA emphasizes that, while fighting the virus and saving lives is the top priority, privacy must not be overlooked and the crisis…
Zooming OUT of being monitored
Now that so many people are working from home, they are using conferencing platforms like Zoom. There’s been some talk about Zoom actually collecting what seems an invasive amount of information about people while they are connected to Zoom. EFF recently noted about Zoom: The host of a Zoom call has the capacity to monitor the…
NZ: OPC reports two “privacy wins” in work-related complaint investigations
I think we could all use some good news these days, so here are two recent privacy “wins” reported by Feilidh Dwyer of the New Zealand privacy commissioner’s office: Employer’s failure to secure employee’s personal information results in $7000 pay-out A man discovered he was the victim of credit card fraud and a large debt…