The European Commission should limit the expansion of an agency it plans to create to operate the European Union’s visa and asylum databases, according to the EU’s data protection watchdog the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). The Commission has proposed the creation of an agency to run the databases behind the second Schengen Information System…
Fired for Refusing To Let Bosses Use Son’s Social Security Number, Waitress Says
Barbara Leonard reports: A waitress says her managers fired her because she refused to take a bribe to let an undocumented kitchen worker use her son’s Social Security number. Sheila Everly sued Legal Sea Foods in Westchester County Court. Everly says that after she rejected bribes and threats from the Boston-based chain’s managers, she complained…
Ca: Publisher collected and used e-mail addresses for marketing without consent
PIPEDA Case Summary #2009-013 The complainant was perturbed by the number of unsolicited e-mails he received from a publisher marketing a Canadian directory of funding sources. Even when he asked the company to remove his various e-mail addresses from its list, the company continued to send him messages. For its part, the company contended that…
White House transparency initiative
David L. Sobel comments: The Obama Administration today issued its long-awaited Open Government Directive (OGD), a blueprint for transparency that the President promised on January 21, his first full day in office. The OGD is “intended to direct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration”…