Entries tagged with: workplace privacy
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Federal Appeals Court Addresses Email Privacy, Notes EPIC's Amicus Brief
The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has affirmed the lower court judgement in United States v. Hamilton. At issue in the case was the privacy of workplace e-mails exchanged between a husband and wife. The government argued that...
Appeals Court Hears Arguments in E-mail Privacy Case
The Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments this week in United States v. Hamilton, a criminal case involving personal e-mails to a spouse sent from a workplace computer. The court focused on the scope of the marital privilege, the privacy of...
Illinois Becomes Third State to Prohibit Employers from Demanding Facebook Information
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed a bill that will prohibit employers from seeking the social network usernames and passwords of others. The Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act takes effect on January 1, 2013, and will result in...
Following Maryland, Congress and California Consider Bills Banning Employers From Asking for Facebook Passwords
Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced the Social Networking Online Protection Act, a bill that would prohibit employers, colleges, universities, and K-12 schools from seeking usernames or passwords for the social media accounts of employees or students....
Maryland Passes Bill Banning Employers from Demanding Facebook Information
The Maryland legislature passed the first bill banning employers from asking employees or applicants for social networking passwords. The bill was introduced after Robert Collins, an employee at the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, was asked to turn...
EPIC Urges Federal Appeals Court Court to Uphold Workplace Privacy
EPIC has filed an amicus brief in United States v. Hamilton, urging the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold employee privacy interests in personal e-mails. The Government contends that it may obtain private emails from an employer even when...
Senators Call for Investigation into Employer Demands for Facebook Passwords
Senators Blumenthal and Schumer asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Justice to investigate the practice of employers asking job applicants to surrender Facebook user names and passwords. The Senators pointed out that accessing an applicant's profile...
Supreme Court Affirms Right to Informational Privacy, But Says Privacy Act Safeguards Sufficient for NASA Records
The Supreme Court has issued a decision in NASA v. Nelson, a case brought by NASA scientists who argued that the government's invasive background checks violated the Constitution. The Supreme Court found that the inquiries implicate "a privacy interest of...
Labor Relations Board Files Complaint against Company over Facebook Post
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against American Medical Response of Connecticut for firing an employee who complained about her supervisor on Facebook. The company claimed that it fired the employee for violating its policy against depicting...
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in NASA Privacy Case
On October 5, 2010 the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that will determine whether public contract employees have a right to limit the government's collection of their personal information. The case, NASA v. Nelson, was brought by...
New Jersey Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Employee Privacy
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of a female employee whose employer read emails that she sent while using Yahoo Mail on a company-owned laptop. The employee, Marina Stengart, had exchanged emails with her attorney regarding a possible...
City of Ontario v. Quon
Concerning Text Messaging Privacy in the Workplace Questions Presented | Background | EPIC's Interest | Legal Documents | Related Resources | News Reports Latest News : () Questions Presented (1) Whether a SWAT team member has a reasonable expectation of...
Workplace Privacy
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Supreme Court to Hear Workplace Privacy Case, Rule on Safeguards for Text Messages
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that will determine what privacy safeguards apply to text messages transmitted through government employees' pagers. In City of Ontario v. Quon, a federal appeals courts held that California police officers "have a...
