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Storing and screening employee emails abroad

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Germany, United Kingdom, USA
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  • February 25 2008

This Update sets forth new considerations for email policies in the United States due to the NLRB’s recent ruling in Guard Publishing

Contact list on employer's computer belongs to employer

  • DMH Stallard LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 7 2007

In this case a journalist, Mr Isles, created and kept all his contacts on his employer’s computer system

Freedom of Information and IT

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 25 2007

Does information that has been deleted from a system fall within the scope of the Freedom of Information Act?

Face-blockers beware

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 17 2007

Many employers have banned employees from accessing social networking sites during work hours, or place themselves at risk of dismissal

Human capital (employment): whose list is it anyway?

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 11 2007

A contact list contained in Outlook or some other similar programme as part of an employer’s email system belongs to the employer

Is there privacy for public sector workers?

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 20 2008

Individuals working in the private sector can expect that the personal data they provide to their employer will be kept confidential and only disclosed to third parties in very limited circumstances

Employees’ contact lists: who owns them?

  • Wedlake Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 6 2007

The High Court’s decision in Pennwell Publishing (UK) Limited v Isles and others has highlighted the issue of whether an employer or an employee can claim ownership of a list of contacts created and maintained by the employee both prior to and during his employment

Employment Tribunal respondents’ names and addresses to be published

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 4 2008

The Deputy Information Commissioner recently ordered the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) to disclose names and addresses of the respondents to all Employment Tribunal claims lodged since October 2004

Respondents’ names to be disclosed

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 14 2008

The Information Commissioner has ruled that the names and addresses of organisations involved in employment tribunal cases must be made public

Information Commissioner orders disclosure of Employment Tribunal respondents' names and addresses

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 28 2008

The Information Commissioner has ruled that the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) must disclose the names and addresses of respondents to all employment tribunal claims presented since 1st October 2004