Hanni Fakhoury and Jamie Williams write: Ugly facts often make bad law. But it’s important to not let opinions about the specific defendants that appear in court influence how the law will be applied to millions of other individuals. That’s why today, EFF filed an amicus brief urging the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a dangerous decision that…
Category: Workplace
UK: Law change outlaws ‘back door’ criminal record check
Employers who carry out ‘back-door’ criminal record checks on potential employees could face criminal charges after it is finally outlawed. There is a well-established lawful process for checking criminal records, but some rogue employers have tried to bypass that by demanding prospective employees use their rights under the DPA to see information held about them….
NZ: Rude cake baker’s privacy breached: tribunal
Wow. Marty Sharpe reports: A woman who iced a cake with derogatory comments about her former employer has won her claim that her privacy was breached when the company took an image of the cake from her Facebook page and used it to harm her employment opportunities. The Human Rights Review Tribunal ordered NZ Credit…
NZ government agency accidentally discloses informant’s identity to employer after workplace complaint
Oops. The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s Office has posted a summary of a case it investigated. The gist of the situation is that a woman made a complaint about her employer to a government agency and asked that they keep her name confidential. But when the government investigator went to the workplace, the investigator showed the employer…