Not exact matches
Unfortunately, since there is no existing federal
mandate requiring online companies to provide a
privacy policy, many businesses don't feel compelled to offer one.
North Carolina's legislative body passed the Public Facilities
Privacy and Security Act, which
mandates a statewide
policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of their sex.
Without federal laws to
mandate the use of
privacy policies or how they are written, multiple industries self regulate.
But the technique also creates a
privacy concern about health data; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is now backpedaling on a
policy mandating genetic sharing developed just 8 months ago for fear that the health information of people who participated in the studies could be identified.
Human Resources Employment
Policies and Practices (hiring, firing, evaluations, and wage and hour issues); Collective Bargaining and Working with Unions; Workplace
Policies Regarding Email Internet
Privacy and Teacher / Student Interactions; Personnel Responsibility Particular to Public Schools and Teachers (FERPA,
mandated reporter status, 4th and 5th amendment student rights, etc.); Workers» Compensation; Workplace Wellness; Avoiding Burnout; Best Practices for Employee Leaves; Appropriate Handling of Sexual Misconduct Allegations
With this
mandate, the team at Juro set out with a simple aim: design a
privacy policy that people would actually want to read.
A major manufacturing corporation asserted that
mandating a
privacy official is unnecessary and that it would be preferable to ask for the development of
policies that are designed to ensure that processes are maintained to assure compliance.
The decision, however, highlights the paradox of our federal government responding to an important issue of public
policy by adopting legislation (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) that
mandates compliance with rules governing the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, but at the same time not equipping the
privacy commissioner with powers to enforce compliance or punish violators.
In its ruling, the court cited the constitutional right to
privacy of U.S. citizens, saying Ashcroft's
policy «was not reasonably designed or «consistent with the need of the United States to obtain, produce, or disseminate foreign intelligence information»» as
mandated by FISA.