Noor Javed reports: The town of Whitchurch-Stouffville has issued a news release accusing the mayor of being behind a privacy breach that involves making copies of and distributing “confidential information and personnel records” to members of the public. In the release issued Wednesday afternoon, the town said it was launching legal action against embattled Mayor…
Category: Workplace
UK: Female police officer faces the sack for ‘sharing with other colleagues an unsolicited picture a detective sent her of his erect penis’
Keiligh Baker reports: A female police officer is facing the sack after showing colleagues a picture of a detective’s penis, a misconduct hearing has heard. PC Katie Jackson showed the explicit image on her mobile phone to several officers at Goole Police Station, East Yorkshire, despite being told by the officer not to. A misconduct…
Big Brother at Work: Employee Monitoring in the Analytics Age
Arthur O’Connor writes: Orwellian technology, capable of monitoring your every message and conversation, may be coming to your office soon. In keeping with the management adage, “What you can’t measure, you can’t manage,” new employee monitoring methods called talent analytics (or workforce analytics) are hitting the corporate market. From small startups to global giants such…
Lyft Drivers’ Suit Against Uber Over Spying Pared by Judge
Christie Smythe reports: Lyft Inc. drivers will be permitted to revise a lawsuit alleging Uber Technologies Inc. spied on them using a software called “Hell” as part of a scheme to gain a competitive edge. A San Francisco federal magistrate judge dismissed most of the lawsuit Wednesday, but allowed the drivers to file an amended…