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A few weeks back, I did a post about having our personal data hacked. What if the hacker was you? Yes you — the attorney, the employer, or someone else who has confidential information. I was recently reviewing the online court file of an employment case in federal court for a recent blog post.  It’s available for anyone to see. (You might be asking, Why ? Because it’s always interesting to see other filings and the way cases turn out. Ok, it’s always interesting TO ME at least ….). In looking over some of the court-filed documents, I came across the college transcript of the employee/plaintiff.  It was filed by the attorney as evidence in the case. Some newer transcripts don’t have some confidential information. But this college transcript was old school: It still contained the Social Security number of the employee AND his date of birth. And just like that, the attorney has opened up the employee to hacking. In case you are wondering, yes...

In January 2018 we wrote about Ribalda –v- Spain , a European Court of Human Rights case in which a number of supermarket employees were awarded compensation for breach of their privacy rights. They had been stealing quite handsomely from their employer over some months, as they freely admitted, but nonetheless thought it entirely improper that the supermarket should be allowed to use covert video footage of them to prove it [here]. The first chamber of the ECHR found that the installation of covert video surveillance without notice to the employees (as notionally required under Spanish law) amounted to a disproportionate interference with their rights under Article 8 of the European Convention (in summary, to respect for one’s private life), hence the compensation. One judge alone, Judge Dedov railed against this – the employees had lost their right to privacy when they decided to steal, he said, and so deserved everything they had got, which was sacked. The matter th...