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…
Category: Workplace
San Francisco Museum Employees Protest Use Of Thumbprints To Clock In-And-Out Of Work
CBS reports: San Francisco city employees working at the de Young and Legion of Honor museums rallied at City Hall Tuesday to protest use of their thumbprints in biometric authorization, voicing concerns that a cyber hack could irretrievably comprise their personal information. Many city workers at San Francisco museums, represented by Service Employees International Union…
NL: 300 detectives refuse to donate DNA to forensic institute
DutchNews.nl reports: A number of police officers are refusing to give DNA samples to the national forensic institute NFI data bank, the Gelderlander newspaper reports on Friday. The paper says 300 out of over 1,200 detectives are refusing to voluntarily give their DNA to the NFI so it can be used for elimination purposes during…
Office complex implants RFID chips in employees’ hands
Lucas Mearian reports: The corporate tenants of a Swedish high-tech office complex are having RFID chips implanted in their hands, enabling access through security doors, as well as services such as copy machines, all without PIN codes or swipe cards. The employees working at Epicenter, a 15,000-square-foot building in Stockholm, can even pay for lunch using their implants — just…