...The Privacy Act It is a tort, actionable without proof of damage, for a person willfully and without claim of right, to violate the privacy of another person. An individual’s right to privacy is a fundamental human right. This is recognised in a number of international instruments, in particular, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 17) and the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data The Privacy Act 1988 came into force on 1st January 1989; however New Privacy Laws were introduced on 21st December 2001 New private-sector provisions were introduced by the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 to the Privacy Act 1988 The new provisions came into effect on 21 December 2001 for larger organisations (annual turnover of $3 million or more) while smaller companies (annual turnover below $3 million) would have until 21 December 2002 to comply. The new provisions aim to give people greater control over the way information about them is handled by requiring organisations to comply with 10 National Privacy Principles (NPPs). The 10 National Privacy Principals are: 1) Collection (An organisation must not collect personal information unless the information is necessary for one or more of its functions or activities) 2) Use and Disclosure (An organisation must not use or disclose personal information about an individual for a purpose other than the primary purpose of collection) 3) Data Quality...
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...Employee Privacy Report, 1 Employee Privacy Report October 10, 2011 Com/285 University of Phoenix at Axia College Employee Privacy Report, 2 My employer gives every employee a copy of the employee handbook on the day of employment. The handbook is also available on the intranet for easy access and employee use. Included in the handbook is a section on the email use, internet use, and privacy policy that may be updated occasionally as policies and regulations change. Being employed by a financial institution these things are imperative to follow and can result into harsh consequences if they are not abided by. Our policy states that email is only to be used by the employee and should be password protected. Emails are only for work related purposes only. The policy also states that all member sensitive information that is emailed to any external recipient must be encrypted with a password for the members best interest. Internet usage according to policy should only be used for work related purpose as well. It does state in the policy that employees may use the internet for personal purpose when they are not clocked in which would be during breaks and before/after shifts. Gambling, pornography, and chat sites are unauthorized and should never accessed using the company’s internet. Any other sites that are not authorize will appear with a ACCESS DENIED message and it must be reported to your supervisor. The supervisor that...
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...Week Five – Employee Privacy Act Report Jessica Jackson COM/285 Timothy Smith June 20, 2012 Employee Privacy Report In this report I will be discussing the current privacy policies at Abacus Technology Corporation. I will be going over the policies that Abacus Technology has in place regarding e-mail use and internet use. As well as reviewing the current laws that the State of Maryland has regarding employee e-mail and internet privacy. I will also be discussing why companies implement e-mail and internet use policies. Lastly, I will be covering what assumptions employees might make about their privacy at work and how the policies that are in place can affect an employee’s privacy at work. At Abacus Technology electronic communication such as e-mail and internet use is encouraged, however, electronic communications are considered company property and their purpose is only to be used for company business. The policy on electronic communication relates to all electronic media and services, which are accessed using company computer equipment, while on company premises, or by company-paid access methods, and used in a manner which identifies the individual with the company. Employees are not supposed to use electronic communications for excessive personal use, soliciting non-company business, and conducting activities that are illegal or contrary to the firm’s best interest. Individuals are also asked not to access criminal websites or transmit...
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...As an American citizen we all love our privacy it is the only thing we really have that keeps us different and secure. Why should we have anyone looking at we have to say in private over messages and phone calls. Here are three reasons why the patriot act is not such a good idea. It invades privacy,cyber acttacks, and it violates our rights. So now we will begin why this is a bad idea for the government to be allowed to have and listen to our private information. First, this act allows the government to look at anything you have to say online, in chat rooms, texts, personal documents. On the internet you should be allowed to stay anonymous, this keeps us safe from strangers and people that are trying to hack you. That is the beauty of it....
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...Effects of USA PATRIOT Act on Banking Privacy Introduction On September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked by the terrorists and the attack has completely changed the way we live and work. Its impact is so immense that it covers almost every aspect of our life including the privacy protection policy in the banking industry. After the September 11 terrorist attack, the U.S. Congress passed a law, the USA PATRIOT Act that makes it easier for government law enforcement and intelligence agencies to gather and share information related to terror-related investigations and it has changed how the banking industry or financial institutions handle the privacy of their customers’ personal information. The purpose of this research paper is to explore the effects of the USA PATRIOT Act on banking industry’s handling customers’ private personal information. Some Background Information and History of Banking Privacy The USA PATRIOT Act is not an official title of the law. It is the acronym of the very long title of the Act: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. But, before 2001, do we have any law that provides guidelines for the privacy of banking industry in the United States of America? Surely, there are several laws that are related to the financial institutions and the privacy protection policy of...
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...Cloud Computing Providers Privacy Policy Overview Cloud computing providers offer services such as storage, servers, networks, etc. Cloud computing providers (Google, Distil Networks, Cloud Sigma, etc.) have been known to distribute their customer’s information to third party purchasers without properly informing them. It is imperative that the customer’s privacy is being respected to the highest standard, if not these providers chance losing customers. To prevent this from happening within the future, a policy has been created that put in place standards for these cloud computing companies to abide by. Purpose The purpose of this policy is to define standards by which the various cloud providers must adhere to in regards to the distribution of customer information. These standards have been implemented to ensure that the customer’s privacy is secured. They have also been created to assure that the various companies no longer have their services used in an unethical manner by the customers. Lastly, the policy has been created to limit the information that can be distributed to third party buyers, and furthermore limit their use of the information. Scope/Responsibilities The stakeholders that this policy applies to are the following: * The cloud provider’s staff, which have the responsibility of upholding the policy to the fullest extent. Not only does their position depend on it, but so does the reputation of the organization. * The customers also have to abide...
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...the job’s essential functions and to be sure that the test is not conducive to bias and/or creating an adverse impact on any class of applicant. Any applicant taking a pre-employment test has the right to privacy and feedback under the American Psychological Association’s (APA) standard for educational and psychological testing. This particular list of rights is not legally enforceable, but the items on the list are ethical considerations of which employers who wish to be viewed as reputable and credible should be aware. These ethical considerations from the APA state that applicants who take pre-employment tests should be able to expect the following rights: * The right to the confidentiality of test results. * The right to informed consent regarding use of these results. * The right to expect that only people qualified to interpret the scores will have access to them, or that sufficient information will accompany the scores to ensure their appropriate interpretation. * The right to expect the test is fair to all. For example, no one taking it should have prior access to the questions or answers. There are also legal privacy measures in place to protect applicants. U.S. Supreme Court decisions have produced rulings to protect individuals from privacy intrusions, and...
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...There is an argument whether FERPA, the Family Educational Rights, and Privacy Act, which deprive all rights of parents when their children reach 18 years old or attend a postsecondary institution is good or not. I agree with the author, Michele Willins who opposes to FERPA. First of all, it is dangerous. If their children have sick, both mentally and physically, parents have no rights to know their situation. It may make the condition worse, because of lack of consideration. The same for the attendance of classes. If parents do not know whether their children are in school or not and a disaster happen, they can not check their children’s safety. School can not have responsibility for this situation. Although it is hard to manage the information...
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...Application for Compensation Motor Car Traders Guarantee Fund Motor Car Traders Act 1986 Note: please read the information at consumer.vic.gov.au/motorcarclaims before completing this form. | Applicant’s details | | |Name of applicant | | | |Faisal Mehmood | | | |Address | | | |1 Horham Court | | | |St Albans |Postcode 3021 | | | |Date of birth Home telephone number | | | |08/01/1984 | | | |0430185309 ...
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...205 How would you feel if someone that had never met you and had never seen your face was able to tell you that your favorite movies were “50 First Dates, 10 Things I Hate About You, and The Princess Bride,” and that you “browse entertainment news and like to take quizzes” (Angwin, 2010). Would you feel your privacy had been sbreached because someone must have spied on you without your knowledge? That is what happened to Ashley Hayes-Beaty. “Miss Hayes-Beaty is being monitored by Lotame Solutions Inc., a New York company that uses sophisticated software called ‘beacon’ to capture what people are typing on a website” (Angwin, 2010). According to PCWorld Magazine (Sullivan, 2012), personal web habits are being tracked by companies such as Lotame Inc. and Facebook, advertisers, and corporations that “stalk” consumers on the web, and then sold to marketers and the government without web users being informed or aware of it. People like Ashley are suing data brokers that “sold consumer profiles to other companies without taking steps required under the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act to protect consumers” (Gross, 2012). Digital consumer monitoring is a breach of privacy that needs to be addressed. Personal data is being collected and sold without consumer consent, and the current regulatory environment is weak. As this issue becomes more prominent, a variety of solutions have been proposed, such as personal data “lockers,” Shine the Light Law, and transparency within companies....
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...Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace Vicki Puckett COM 120 Allyson Wells October 8, 2006 Do you think that your employee rights entitle you to workplace privacy? Well, think again. The fact is that most employers monitor their employee in one way or another. In the workplace, many employers are violating the privacy rights of their employees by surveillance, genetic testing, and sexual orientation. According to some workplace privacy studies, there is a good chance that your employer is monitoring your internet activities, including the Web pages you read, and messages you read and post in forums, blogs, and chat rooms. Your employer could also be spying on you in several other ways as well. Some may include recording your phone conversations, videotaping your every move within the company, and tracking your location with the company cell phone. Such monitoring is almost entirely unregulated. Therefore, unless company policy specifically states otherwise, your employer may listen, watch and record most of your workplace communications. The rapid growth of workplace monitoring and surveillance technology has far out paced the development of laws that protect worker privacy interests. Modern technology has provided employers with more advanced and effective means of monitoring their employees. As a result, electronic monitoring of employees in the workplace has become far more prevalent in recent years...
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...The idea of employee monitoring has become increasingly controversial throughout the past few years. With the introduction of social media, the widespread use of global positioning satellite (GPS) technology, and cameras in many public locations, it has become ever more difficult to keep our lives private. It is the need for privacy that has raised tensions between employers and employees. With the rise of employee monitoring many employees feel that employers target them, or even discipline the employee for benign activities such as using social media applications on company computers. While employers would agree that they have the right to scrutinize “personal” activities, such as sending harassing emails or disclosing company secrets. Employers...
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...regulation in the United Kingdom. In current UK law there is no legislation that forbids publications from printing articles that can be considered as intrusive and invasion of an individual’s privacy. This however does not mean that there is no regulation governing publications. There is a strict code of practice that all the media outlets both print and broadcast have come to an agreement to adhere to. This code was set up by the Press Compliant Commission in order to regulate the industry. This commission is an independent entity that was set up in the early 1990s following the recommendations of a commission on press regulation that was chaired by Sir. David Calcutt. The commission’s core responsibility is to ensure that the press adheres to the agreed code of practice on sensitive topics such minors and privacy (Fourie 2002: 46). In case of any breach of the code of conduct, the commission will conduct an investigation and either uphold the complaint or dismiss it in its entirety. With the exception of incidents regarding inaccuracies (these are dealt with by the editor responsible) all other cases have to be adjudicated and published by the commission. This commission came to being ultimately because government wanted to come up with measures to ensure protection of individual’s privacy rights against the activities of various media houses. The commission that was set up to give recommendations on how to replace the Press council which was the regulatory body before. This...
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...Privacy ‘The Limits of Privacy’ and ‘The Case for privacy’ are written by Amitai Etzioni and David D. Friedman respectively. Both of them have opposite views about privacy, which Etzioni states that less privacy is good for us and Friedman claims that more privacy makes the world a better place. In this paper, I will argue that Etzioni’s argument fails because privacy is really important for us to protect ourselves. I am going to explain in detail based on three different points in the next three paragraphs. First, in ‘The Limits of Privacy’, Etzioni argues that privacy is not important as many other goods. Based on his argument, he claims that “there are numerous values that trump or take precedence over privacy” (p.254) such as safety. However, I totally disagree his standpoint. Although safety also considers as a part of importance, it does not mean that safety can take priority over privacy consideration. Privacy does have significance effect for us to protect ourselves. Some people may think that it is worth to sacrifice their individual privacy in order to get freedom for safety. Once you give up your own privacy and allow anyone like governments to access to your information freely, your information is disclosed and you cannot get them back anymore. For example, after 9/11 attack in the United States, a lot of new measures about surveillance are introduced. The government can have authorities to wiretap, record or trace orders for email made by all Americans. These...
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... TITLE OF THE PAPER: CYBER SPACE MASS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS,INFRINGEMENT OF PRIVACY OF INDIVIDUALS, BY STATE IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY. ABSTRACT: In this present era of cyber revolution and globalization, citizens have turned into “Netizens”. The advancements in the field of technology is also accompanied with the development of various methods of surveillance and intervention by the State into individuals’ private information. Governments are keeping an eagle eye by monitoring individual's movements, businesses transactions and also the means of communication, which includes cyberspace. It is alleged that the United States of America’s National Security Agency runs a program known as PRISM, which enables the US government to gain access to e- mails , conversations, pictures, voice calls and even sign in details of people using websites and applications associated with 1|Page Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, to name a few. Failure of cyber law mechanisms and national authorities to advance legislation and frameworks along with the technological developments and the increasing trends on States’ surveillance practices has created an environment in which citizen’s right to privacy is easily violated, leading to human rights violations also and lack of accountability, which raises questions on the legitimacy of such act of state. This research paper will mainly be focusing on this issue of privacy...
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