Matt Byrne reports: A federal jury has found that Maine State Police supervisors retaliated against a detective who refused to break federal disclosure rules and tried to report what he believed was illegal data collection by a secretive state police intelligence unit. The jury of six men and three women [Read More…]
Dan Cooper, Helena Milner-Smith, and Jiayen Ong of Covington and Burling write: On October 12, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) opened a public consultation seeking feedback on the draft guidance document on employment practices, specifically relating to monitoring at work (the “Monitoring at Work Guidance”). The guidance aims [Read More…]
The EDPB has posted a decision by Slovenia’s data protection regulator: Background information Date of final decision: 04 October 2022 Controller: employer in private sector Legal Reference: National Law (Personal Data Protection Act), Article 5.1(c) and 6.1(f) of the GDPR Decision: Order to comply Key words: GPS tracking Summary of [Read More…]
Ashley Belanger reports: Hundreds of thousands of Americans juggled two full-time jobs in September, and nearly 4 million more mixed full-time with part-time work, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. This “overemployment” trend has become so popular through the pandemic that Wired reported that some workers described holding down two jobs as the [Read More…]