Supreme Court will Decide Privacy Case
The Supreme court has agreed to hear a case arising out of California, but which will surely affect employees in Maryland. In NASA v. Nelson, 28 lower level employees of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,...
View ArticleHospital Accused of Forcing out Injured Workers
A local hospital, the Baltimore Washington Medical Center, is accused of forcing out injured employees in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and HIPAA. The class action lawsuit filed...
View ArticleRight of Privacy Does Not Trump Government’s Right to Know its Contract...
While many of us willingly give up the most private of information on facebook to our hundreds of “friends,” we value our ability to choose what we disclose, and perhaps naively think we control who...
View ArticleState Backs Off Demand that Applicants Be its Facebook Friend
Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has backed off of its policy to demand that applicants and employees returning from leave reveal their facebeook ids and passwords. The...
View ArticleFacebook Firings are Back in the News
The National Labor Relations Board has again pursued a company for firing employees over their facebook postings. Here is how it began. An employee of a non-profit, Hispanics United of Buffalo (NY),...
View ArticleMaryland Legislature Passes New Employment Laws
The Maryland legislative session just ended. As always, lots of bills were left on the cutting room floor. But a couple of interesting laws will become law if the Governor signs them. The most...
View ArticleMore Privacy in Social Media Proposed in Congress
Maryland recently outlawed employer practices of demanding that employees give access to their facebook and similar accounts. That law goes into effect October 1. Congress has jumped on this...
View ArticleSeizure of LinkedIn Account Does Not Violate Computer Fraud Law
In a new decision from a Pennsylvania federal court, a fired employee lost her claim for damages after her former employer changed her password and took over her LinkedIn account. After a merger, the...
View ArticleSchools and Bosses Feel Entitled to Violate Privacy in Social Media Accounts
An interesting article reports that violations of password protected social media accounts begins early. According to this article in the American Bar Association Journal, spying on students is...
View ArticleWorkplace Privacy? Don’t Expect Much
This interesting, rather frightening, article is worth your time. It details the many ways that employers can and do monitor computer usage, movements, and social media usage by their employees. While...
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