Privacy Legal Questions and Answers
Can a Website of a Former Employer List My Name?
Can a former employer post my name on their alumni website? I worked for this organization for a short period of time over 4 years ago. Only my name is listed with everyone else that worked in that year but I do not recall giving permission to have my name released as an employee.
03/06/2011 | Category: Privacy | State: Colorado | #24350What Are Workplace Privacy Rights With Regard to Camera Surveillance?
I thought that it was against the law to place sound audio due to privacy violation laws. I am aware that cameras are perfectly legal. Harassment is defined as the person coming to your face and saying or doing whatever it is that they are trying to relay, however, I have had my: managers, employers, the employs I work with & even HR stand around and verbally assault me the e...
02/12/2011 | Category: Privacy | State: Mississippi | #24210Is it Illegal for an Ex-Girlfriend to Post Nude Photos of Me?
I broke up with my girlfriend she retaliated and put nude photos of me in my apartment complex. Can she be charged with a crime if caught?
02/08/2011 | Category: Privacy | State: Virginia | #24182if an employer provides and pays for phones for his employees how can they be monitored?
if an employer provides and pays for Blackberrys for his employees for business email use while on the road, and if the employee consents in writing, is the employer allowed to program the Blackberrys to blind carbon copy him on all the employees emails without violating privacy laws. I understand email monitoring is legal in a office computer environment, but the blackberry wo...
12/02/2010 | Category: Privacy | State: Illinois | #23752What can be done about neighbor who built obstructing fence and video cameras pointing at us?
I have a semi-detached one family home. Recently my neighbor put up a privacy fence between my walkway and his , this is where the homes are attached. The wall has taken the view I had, not only of his front yard, but I can't see across the street down the block, I can only see straight ahead and to my right even the neighbors on the block say its an eye-sore, its splits the ...
11/18/2010 | Category: Privacy | State: New York | #23665What Can I Do About A Co-Worker Threatening to Expose Our Affair?
I had an affair with a coworker. He has shown some explicit pictures to other coworkers that I had sent to his phone and is threatening to send them to my spouse if I reported him for doing anything wrong in the workplace. I live in Texas and I am unsure as to the proper thing to do. We work in the healthcare field and the pictures that he has shown to others has been humiliati...
10/23/2010 | Category: Privacy | State: Texas | #23467Can I Post a Video of My Attackers on the Internet?
I would like to know if I can I post a video on the internet of the men that assaulted me?
10/20/2010 | Category: Privacy | State: Ohio | #23442Can I Be in Trouble for Installing Fake Security Cameras Aimed at a Neighbor?
I recently installed 3 fake security cameras. The neighbors--the reason I installed them to begin with--called the cops. The cops came out, took pictures of my back yard--I guess to show where the cameras were pointed. They are not pointed at any windows and may only slightly have shown any of the neighbors house even if they were real. So I asked the cop what was going on ...
08/13/2010 | Category: Privacy | State: Indiana | #22900Can Others Monitor an Adult Without His or Her Knowledge?
Is it legal for family members, church authorities or coworkers to monitor another adult in their home , in their vehicle, on their home communication or at their workplace without just cause? If so, what gives them the legal right? Thirdly, if something gives them that right - is the person being monitored ever alerted - can they go to the courthouse & find out why ?
07/27/2010 | Category: Privacy | State: Iowa | #22762Can a Neighbor Put Up a Camera That Points at My House?
Is it legal for a neighbor to have 2 mini cameras mounted in bird houses on his home looking into my back yard and my front door. This is in the state of Arizona. I have had trouble with this neighbor in the past?
07/07/2010 | Category: Privacy | State: Arizona | #22608