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Current AffairsStudy finds most Czech companies monitor employee internet activity
Concerns about employee privacy in the Czech Republic are on the rise. A
freshly released survey suggests that three quarters of all Czech companies
track the web pages that their employees visit. And the minister for
minorities and human rights recently proposed a crack-down on employers who
don’t respect the privacy of their staff. How serious is the situation?
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Current AffairsState institute found to be illegally collecting personal medical data
The Office for Personal Data Protection says it has never encountered such
a large-scale database of illegally collected personal data: information
from 200,000 drug prescriptions a day for the last six months showing who
uses what kind of medicine. And the body collecting it? The State
Institute
for Drug Control. More
Current AffairsCharity seeking homes for children charged with breaching data protection laws
A prominent Czech children's charity is facing charges for breaching data
protection laws. On its website, the Fund for Children in Need publishes
details of abandoned children for whom it would like to find a home. The
Czech data protection office says that with such sensitive information
being made openly available, these children could fall victim to bullying
at school, or even pedophiles. The charity vehemently disagrees, and calls
the charges ‘shocking’.
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Current AffairsHealth Ministry criticized for planning controversial database
For years now many Czech doctors have been collecting sensitive information
about their patients. They say that detailed questionnaires on ethnicity,
sexual orientation and lifestyle help them provide better care. Now the
Health Ministry wants to take this practice further by setting up a
central register of patients which would include such sensitive
information in conjunction with an identification number, with the help of
which any person can easily be traced.
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