Low-cost airline Ryanair has been accused of illegally setting up surveillance cameras to spy on its employees at Rygge Airport in Moss, south of Oslo. Agents from Norway’s Data Protection Authority raided the Irish airline’s premises unannounced to inspect the cameras, which were installed this January. “They have set up multiple cameras,” Bjørn Erik Thon,…
Category: Workplace
AU: Medical examinations used to access your private information
Leanne Nicholson reports: Private information of thousands of Australian jobseekers harvested through medical examinations and stored for profit has raised legal and applicant concerns about the protection and use of personal data. Australia’s largest publicly-listed health and risk management provider, Konekt, has collected the personal data of jobseekers since 2007 through medical examinations on behalf…
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Investigate How Information Shared Via Online Social Networks Can Lead to Hiring Discrimination
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — A large-scale field experiment conducted by Carnegie Mellon University researchers has found evidence that sharing personal information via online social networks can lead to hiring discrimination. Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology and public policy at CMU’s H. John Heinz III College, and Christina Fong, senior research scientist at CMU’s Dietrich College of Humanities…
Haulin’ Data: How Trucking Became the Frontier of Work Surveillance
Chris Baraniuk reports: … Pingel, along with more than three million of his fellow truckers in the United States, is facing a regulatory upheaval which will cost his industry an estimated $2 billion and fundamentally change the way he does his job. Over the next few years, it will become mandatory, by law, for all…