This week, technology brings trouble for employees and students, but benefits for the government and its citizens. In Massachusetts, a firefighter's emails were used against him in a sexual harassment investigation. Nearby, a Rutgers student was sentenced to 30 days in jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate, and a Boston University student's plea for the Supreme Court to review his $675,000 fine for illegally downloading music was rejected. The government, on the other hand, is using technology to solve--rather than create--problems. Federal agencies are using apps to ...
Facebook dominated headlines once again this week, leaving little room for employment-related matters. The cyber world was abuzz in anticipation of this morning's launch of Facebook's IPO. The final IPO was set yesterday at $38 per share, but trading opened this morning at $42 a share. While many investors believe this is their golden ticket, others aren't so sure. With a pending privacy lawsuit and an AP poll showing that half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, it remains to be seen what kind of a deal Facebook investors really got today.
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Tired of hearing about privacy? Perhaps you should avoid the news for a little while longer, then, because this week the war over online privacy heated up when Congress decided to join the fight. On Wednesday, the Password Protection Act of 2012 was introduced in the US Senate. It seeks to prohibit employers from coercing prospective and current employees to provide access to any secured information stored online or from retaliating against employees' refusals to do so. An identical bill is being debated in the House. A California bill with the same aims unanimously passed the Assembly ...
Privacy is right on the tip of everyone's tongue again this week. Delaware proposed its own Facebook privacy law for employers and employees that goes even further than Maryland's recent legislation and the law currently before Congress. The FCC released its full report on concerns with Google's gathering of data for their Street View feature on Google maps. A court in the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that a Facebook "like" is not protected under the First Amendment. Finally, the New York Times described how users can cover up their searching habits on the web.
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