My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: U.S.
A few months ago the Personnel Office of the federal government had their servers hacked and all of my personal information including fingerprints and social security number, work history, and contact information- along with that of millions of others- was stolen. I had applied to a couple of jobs with the government for after grad school. As I know very little about law, I'm wondering if there is already a class action suit being built around this, and if so, where I can look to find it and contact those people.
If not, I'd like to file one to affect change in the legal process of applying for jobs.
1. No need to provide social security number and fingerprints on a job application. Unnecessary endangerment of candidate's identifying information in cases like this.
2. Should an employer be interested in interviewing a candidate for round 2 or 3, that information can be disclosed.
3. No employer should have the right to store personal candidate information in unsecured or weakly secured physical or cyber space.
The feds are already guaranteeing lifelong free Identity Theft protection from a supposedly sound company, but that is no redress. I want to prevent this from ever happening again.
Is there a way I can change my social? Never. But maybe we should rethink that in cases of careless handling of sensitive information by government offices like this.
I now have to worry about my identity being stolen for the rest of my life. Nobody should ever be put in a situation like that should it be preventable, and in this case, it most certainly is.
Thank you for any guidance you may be able to provide.
A few months ago the Personnel Office of the federal government had their servers hacked and all of my personal information including fingerprints and social security number, work history, and contact information- along with that of millions of others- was stolen. I had applied to a couple of jobs with the government for after grad school. As I know very little about law, I'm wondering if there is already a class action suit being built around this, and if so, where I can look to find it and contact those people.
If not, I'd like to file one to affect change in the legal process of applying for jobs.
1. No need to provide social security number and fingerprints on a job application. Unnecessary endangerment of candidate's identifying information in cases like this.
2. Should an employer be interested in interviewing a candidate for round 2 or 3, that information can be disclosed.
3. No employer should have the right to store personal candidate information in unsecured or weakly secured physical or cyber space.
The feds are already guaranteeing lifelong free Identity Theft protection from a supposedly sound company, but that is no redress. I want to prevent this from ever happening again.
Is there a way I can change my social? Never. But maybe we should rethink that in cases of careless handling of sensitive information by government offices like this.
I now have to worry about my identity being stolen for the rest of my life. Nobody should ever be put in a situation like that should it be preventable, and in this case, it most certainly is.
Thank you for any guidance you may be able to provide.
Hiring: Fed Govt Servers Hacked- Fingerprints/Ssn Stolen- Civil/Workers Rights Violation
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