Matt Reynolds reports: Former officers from the defunct Office of Public safety have accused the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department of leaking confidential information to the Los Angeles Times, which used it to identify them in series of articles about problem hires. More than 40 former officers of the Office of Public Safety sued Los Angeles…
Category: Workplace
The Right to Listen in on Employees’ Phone Calls and the Standardization of French Privacy Law
Myrtille Lapuelle of McDermott Will & Emery LLP writes: Since 2001, the French Court of Cassation has made a continuous effort to refine and, in some circumstances, narrow the scope of the right to privacy in the workplace with a view to reaching a fair and balanced approach. The January 6, 2015 declaration of the French Data Protection…
B.C. Privacy Commissioner to investigate District of Saanich use of employee monitoring software
VICTORIA—B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has initiated an investigation into the District of Saanich’s use of monitoring software to track employee activity on its computer systems. “My office has been closely following recent events in the District of Saanich, where allegations have been made that spyware is being used on district-owned computers to monitor employees with or…
Pittsburgh Police Chief McLay has officers sign memo not to leak info
Margaret Harding and Bob Bauder report: A city administration that prides itself on transparency and openness said Wednesday it supports a message to police officers to zip their lips or face discipline. Pittsburgh police Chief Cameron McLay ordered officers and other police employees this week to sign a “memorandum of individual responsibility” in the presence…