Data Protection Prosecution with Sentence of 2 years For Sale of Personal Information Welcomed
Assistant Data Protection Commissioner, Tony Delaney, has recently welcomed the outcome of prosecution proceedings which concluded at Letterkenny Circuit Court and which... Read More
Monitoring of Email in the Workplace – Breach of Article 8 – Right to Respect For Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
A recent European Court of Human Rights ruling provides that employers must notify their employees in advance if their professional email accounts... Read More
Privacy and Electronic Communications – European Commission proposes new legislation
A full copy of the press release is available to view here. According to the Press Release, “The proposed Regulation on Privacy... Read More
Facebook posting and demotion – English High Court rules in favour of Employee but expresses “real disquiet” about the financial award
The recent English decision of Mr Adrian Smith v Trafford Housing Trust [2012 EWHC 3221 (Ch) delivered by Justice Briggs in November 2012 sheds further... Read More
Data Protection and proposals for “one stop shop”
It is proposed under new EU rules that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission may be set to become the lead agency for regulating... Read More
Social Media and Discoverability – a thorny issue
In a recent talk I gave on Social Media and the law, the issue of discoverability of social media evidence was a hot topic... Read More
California becomes third state to pass legislation banning employers seeking social networking passwords
It has been reported that California is now the third state to pass legislation banning employers from requesting or requiring the social-networking... Read More
Social Privacy Bill passed by Californian Senate this week
On Tuesday of this week, the Californian Senate unanimously passed the Social Privacy Bill which will prohibit Colleges and Universities from requesting... Read More
Illinois second state to ban employers from requesting social network usernames or passwords
Illinois has become the second state after Maryland in the US to ban employers from asking employees or job candidates for their Facebook... Read More
UK employer liable for facebook status “finally came out of the closet” “hijack” of ex-employee by colleagues
I recently came across this case of the London South Employment Tribunal of 19th June 2012 whilst doing some research for a presentation... Read More