Archive for November, 2008

Corporations may tighten norms to screen employees

Business Line, Business Daily from the HINDU Group of Publications Sunday Nov 30, 2008 Adith Charlie ‘90% of firms are not doing background screening’.  Companies see background screening and checking of employees as additional cost and not as an investment in ensuring safety Mumbai, Nov. 29 Corporates would have to make their ‘know-your employee’ (KYE) [...]

Privacy chief approves of sharing criminal records if privacy beefed-up

OUT-LAW News, 22/09/2008 Europe’s privacy regulator has said that he will back a pan-European criminal records system only if specific data protection measures are put in place. Because the system deals with crime and security, EU data protection law does not currently apply to it. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx has said [...]