UtotheRescue reports: The San Francisco Chronicle has coverage of an issue that has been circulating on faculty email networks at UC Berkeley for a few days. The piece, “Cal professors fear UC bosses will snoop on them,” is behind a paywall. The first sentence reads, “UC Berkeley faculty members are buzzing over news that University of California President Janet…
Category: Workplace
Snooping on Employee’s Emails in the EU: Don’t Believe the Hype
Earlier this week, I noted a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that concerned workplace privacy. Apparently, the UK media’s coverage of that ruling has been variously dramatic or inaccurate. So much so, it seems, that Andrew Cutting, Council of Europe spokesperson/media officer issued a statement about media misrepresentation of the ruling: Certain parts of the…
Private messages at work can be read by employers, says court
Kevin Rawlinson reports: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said a firm that read a worker’s Yahoo Messenger chats sent while he was at work was within its rights. Judges said he breached the company’s rules and that his employer had a right to check he was completing his work. Such policies must also protect…
Chicago police must finally produce stingray records, judge orders
Cyrus Farivar reports: A local activist has won an important intermediary step in his legal quest to force the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to produce documents that fully explain the department’s use of cell-site simulators, also known as IMSI catchers. In a Monday opinion in Martinez v. Chicago Police Department, Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen Kennedydenied the city’s motion…