Section 6.4: "Insider" crimes
Employees of two major banks in Liechtenstein collected sensitive information
on bank clients and sold it. The German government, looking for tax dodgers,
paid (the equivalent of) millions of dollars for some of the information.
The thieves also blackmailed some clients and one of the banks.
Section 6.4: "Insider" crimes
A former employee of
Time Warner helped steal 92 million usernames and passwords and sold
them to a spammer. Several employees of Bank of America and other
banks were arrested for selling account information on about 500,000
customers. The information was purchased by law firms and collection
agencies. (June 2, 2005)
Section 6.5: Monitoring home workers
Some employers are extending various computer monitoring of office workers
to employees who work at home. The systems capture screen images at
random times (presumably to make sure employees are working when they
are supposed to be), take pictures of the employee with the camera in
the computer, and screen employee phone calls made from home.
Section 6.5.4: Racist email on police computers
The Australian government is investigating dozens of police for circulating
racist, homophobic, and pornographic email on department computers.
(March 2010)
Section 6.5.4: Employee files on company
computers
An appeals court in New Jersey upheld the principle that an employee cannot
expect that files stored on company computers are private. In this case,
the company had turned over the computer to the police, who found
records on it used to convict the employee of stealing $650,000 from the
company. (Sept. 2008)
Section 6.5.4: Employee e-mail
and text messages
A federal appeals court ruled that if employers contract with an outside
company to provide e-mail and text message services for employees,
the company may not read employees' messages without their permission.
The decision might be appealed. (June 2008)
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