Laura Northrup reports: A doctor in California claims that there are real secret agents in the Geek Squad, and that a paid FBI informant turned him in after finding suspicious material on his hard drive in 2012. While the FBI doesn’t deny that the Geek Squad employee did contact them about the contents of the…
Category: Workplace
Social media policy for government-issued background investigations
The government has released a first-ever social media policy for background investigations, which will scan what applicants have posted on Facebook, Twitter and other sites to determine their trustworthiness. Read the full story on the Washington Post, and see the policy document.
Conservative group requests personal information of state employees
Josh Kerns reports: State workers are raising deep concern after learning a prominent anti-union group is seeking their personal information, including their birth dates, worrying it could lead to widespread privacy violations and identity theft. Complaints began pouring into various unions representing state workers over the last month after the Olympia-based Freedom Foundation filed public…
Privacy: Dump Minnesota State Colleges and University System plan to inspect employees’ personal cellphones
From an editorial in the Mankato Free Press last week: An ill-conceived plan by the Minnesota State Colleges and University System to make rules to inspect the personal cellphones of MnSCU employees almost at will should be dumped. The initial proposal announced at the end of March called for MnSCU adjusting its employee rules to allow…