Interesting news from Illinois, from Associated Press: The Illinois House wants to bar employers from asking workers and job applicants for access to social media like Facebook. The legislation passed 78-30 Thursday and now goes to the Senate. Read more on KFVS. Information on the bill can be found here (full text as engrossed here)….
Month: March 2012
3 things we don’t know about Obama’s massive voter database
Lois Beckett has an interesting news report on President Obama’s re-election campaign database. If you’ve contacted the campaign or used that site, you might want to read her coverage in the Tucson Sentinel. Here’s a disturbing snippet: 3. Is there any way to erase yourself from the campaign’s database? As far as we can tell,…
Privacy commissioner says UVic breached privacy act by not protecting employee information
Kyle Slavin reports: Given that such sensitive information – the names, social insurance numbers and banking details – for 11,841 University of Victoria employees was stored on a device so susceptible to loss or theft, B.C.’s privacy commissioner says there is “no rationale” that the information wasn’t digitally secure. Read more on Saanich News. You…
Judge: Bradley Manning supporter can sue government over border search
Kim Zetter reports: An outspoken supporter of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has won the right to sue the federal government over a border search-and-seizure that agents conducted in 2010 after his return to the US from a Mexico vacation. David Maurice House, an MIT researcher, was granted the right to pursue a case against the…