English Library: Privacy Rights
All Consumer Action publications are available online, with most also available as a PDF download. Government agencies, nonprofits and other community-based organizations who wish to distribute our publications for educational purposes can use the PDF file to instantly produce a professional-looking brochure using an office printer.
Library: English | Workplace Privacy Guide
This backgrounder guide on workplace privacy is written in question-and-answer format. It explains the limited nature of employee privacy rights in the workplace, and details when and how employers can observe and track employees’ activities—including phone conversations and computer-related tasks on company-owned devices.
Category: Privacy Rights on Oct 20, 2009
Library: English | Workplace Privacy: Your rights on the job
To protect your personal privacy and your job, you should know when and how employers can monitor and gather information about you. This publication explains some of the situations in which monitoring might occur in the workplace and explains your privacy rights as an employee.
Category: Privacy Rights on May 15, 2009
Library: English | Leave me alone (2008): Your privacy online—and offline
Leave Me Alone! Your Privacy Online - and Offline explains the concept of personal privacy and why it is important to be careful about who has access to your personal information. Topics covered include privacy in cyberspace, cutting down on unwanted junk mail and spam e-mail from marketers and ‘top ten’ ways to protect your privacy on and off the Internet.
Category: Privacy Rights on May 23, 2008
Library: English | Protect Your Phone Records
Phone records are an important source of private information that someone might try to access without your consent for illegal or harmful purposes. This publication can help you understand who would want to access your phone records, why they might want to do it, how they try to access your private information and what you can do to reduce the chances of becoming a victim. A companion Leader’s Guide is available.
Category: Fraud/Scams Privacy Rights Telecom Wireless on Aug 28, 2007
Library: English | Protect Your Phone Records - Leader’s Guide
Pretexting is a method of obtaining someone else’s personal information, including phone records, under false pretenses. This Leader’s Guide, written in question-and-answer format, will help give trainers background on the techniques pretexters use, the damage they can do to victims, various laws and regulations that keep phone records private, how to protect personal data and how victims can file complaints. A companion brochure is available.
Category: Fraud/Scams Privacy Rights Telecom Wireless on Aug 27, 2007