Arjun Ramachandran and Asher Moses report that six prison workers in New South Wales, Australia received letters from the Corrective Services Department that they may be fired for comments they made on Facebook that the department describes as “bullying” and “harassment”. The public sector union has taken the matter to the Industrial Relations Commission as…
Reality Check: The Presidential Records Act of 1978 meets web-based social media of 2009
Macon Phillips posted this on the The White House blog: Recently, we have seen a few stories questioning how the Presidential Records Act (PRA) intersects with Americans’ use of modern social media, like Facebook and Twitter, to communicate with the White House. Before I address some specific issues raised in these stories, let me give…
Cybersecurity Plan Doesn’t Breach Employee Privacy, Administration Says
Ellen Nakashima reports: The Obama administration has agreed with its predecessor that a special surveillance program to monitor federal Internet traffic for malicious intrusions does not violate the privacy rights of government employees or others they communicate with. By notifying government employees logging on to their computers that they have “no reasonable expectation of privacy”…
Facebook ‘suck sites’ to be tested in court
Vikki Ortiz Healy reports: A beauty school student thought he was offering classmates a place to vent when he created a Facebook page mocking teachers and classes. “Don’t be afraid to post comments on whats going on, this is yor voice too. All for one and one for all right?!” (sic) But two months later,…