Phone customers can sue U.S. gov’t over eavesdropping 
Published: January 3, 2012
Tags: civil rights, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, First Amendment, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Fourth Amendment, privacy rights, Stored Communications Act
Residential telephone and Internet service customers have standing to sue the federal government over the program of warrantless eavesdropping implemented in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, the 9th Circuit has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
Court upholds job background check over privacy challenge
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: January 19, 2011
Tags: background check, Employment Law, privacy rights, Supreme Court
Contract employees’ privacy interests do not prevent a government employer from seeking information, including data on previous drug use, drug treatment, and mental and financial stability, in an employment background check, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
EMPLOYMENT – PRIVACY
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: January 19, 2011
Tags: background check, Employment Law, privacy rights, Supreme Court
Contract employees’ privacy interests do not prevent a government employer from seeking information, including data on previous drug use, drug treatment, and mental and financial stability, in an employment background check.
See “Court upholds job background check despite privacy challenge.”
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Court again takes on issue of employee privacy rights
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: October 5, 2010
Tags: constitutional law, Employment Law, privacy rights, Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court again wrangled with the issue of employees’ privacy rights in a case considering whether a government background check was unconstitutional.
PRIVACY ACT
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: March 8, 2010
Tags: privacy rights
Did the government violate the privacy rights of federal contract employees by conducting a background investigation into whether they had received treatment or counseling for illegal drug use, as well as asking references for any adverse information about the employees on a variety of topics, ranging from mental stability to financial integrity?
Justices to hear case on employees’ rights
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: March 8, 2010
Tags: privacy rights
Would the government violate the privacy rights of federal contract employees by conducting a background investigation into whether they had received treatment or counseling for illegal drug use, as well as asking references for any adverse information about the employees on a variety of topics, ranging from mental stability to financial integrity?
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