The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s office investigated a complaint stemming from an employer notifying all employees as to the reasons for the departure of a fellow employee. While the company routinely notified employees of changes in staff, this departure was related to the employee’s drug use. Did it violate NZ’s privacy law by revealing personal…
Category: Workplace
French man who kept porn on work computer loses privacy appeal
Kevin Rawlinson reports: A man who kept a stash of pornography on his work computer has failed to convince judges his right to a private life was infringed when his employer opened the personal files containing the material without his knowledge. Eric Libert was fired by the French national rail operator SNCF in 2008 after…
Class Complaint Alleges Port Authority Doctors Illegally Videotape Exams
Colby Hamilton reports: In-house medical personnel at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are secretly video recording interactions between its employees and doctors, a new class action complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges. Charlene Talarico, a senior administrative secretary, stated that, after a physical…
Covert Surveillance: does it breach the right to privacy?
DAC Beachcroft writes: The use of hidden cameras did violate the right to privacy of employees who were dismissed for theft, according to the European Court of Human Rights. The facts A Spanish supermarket, MSA, identified discrepancies between stock levels and what was supposedly being sold in store. The monthly losses ranged from around €7,500…