Mark Sherman of the Associated Press broke the story yesterday: The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department [...]
Adam Vrankulj reports: NOVAtime Technology has announced that the Des Moines Public Schools has chosen NOVAtime to automate its time and attendance process for its employees across the school district. According to the company, its subscription-based workforce management solution, NOVAtime 4000 Software as a Service, as well as over 80 of its NT6500 fingerprint time [...]
Chris Calabrese of the ACLU writes: Today’s release of an immigration reform proposal from the Gang of Eight raises a host of civil liberties issues, many of which the ACLU will undoubtedly be commenting on in the coming days and weeks. Today, I’m focusing on our concerns with one particular program, E-Verify. Currently, E-Verify is a [...]
V. John Ella of Jackson Lewis writes: The Fourth District Court of Appeal for the State of California expanded the tort of “public disclosure of private facts” under that state’s common law right to privacy in a case involving a claim by an employee against her supervisor and employer. Ignat v. Yum! Brands, Inc. et al, No. G046434, (Cal. [...]
Jaikumar Vijayan reports that Harvard University will be reviewing and revamping its email privacy policies after a recent controversial search of 16 deans’ email to identify the source of a leak turned out to be more extensive than they had originally claimed: At Tuesday’s meeting, Harvard Dean Evelyn Hammond noted that two additional searches had [...]
Law360 reports: A New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday that government contractor Magellan Health Services Inc. didn’t violate the federal Right to Privacy Act when it informed the Federal Aviation Administration about an FAA employee’s alleged drinking problems, saying the act applies only to federal agencies. Read more about the opinion in Repetto v. Magellan Health Services on [...]
Mary Carmichael reports: Harvard University central administrators secretly searched the email accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, looking for a leak to the media about the school’s sprawling cheating case, according to several Harvard officials interviewed by the Globe. The resident deans sit on Harvard’s Administrative Board, the committee charged with handling the cheating [...]