Legal Actions Against Privacy Violations

Legal Actions Against Privacy ViolationsLegal Actions Against Privacy ViolationsDeception. Your employer asked you to submit to a routine medical examination, for example, but mentioned nothing about a drug test. However, the urine sample that you gave to the examining physician was analyzed for drug traces, and because drugs were found in your urine, you were fired.Violation of confidentiality. Your employer asked you to fill in a health questionnaire and assured you that the information would be held in confidence for the companys use only. But you later found out that the health information was divulged to a prospective employer that inquired about you. Secret, intrusive monitoring. Installing visible video cameras above a supermarkets cash registers would usually be considered a legitimate method of ensuring that employees are not stealing from the company. But installing hidden video cameras above the stalls in an employee restroom would probably qualify as an invasion of privac y in all but the highest security jobs.Intrusion on your private life. Your employer hired a private detective, for example, to monitor where you go in the evening when youre not at work. When the company discovered that you are active in a gay rights organization, you were told to resign from that group or risk losing your job.