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How is that a privacy concern in the US if you find the salaries of over a million people on a government website? I find that a bit disturbing.



It's certainly personal data within the meaning of the law in all the EU states.

Everyone on here has a blue fit over the NSA but is fine with this!


Government is the public sector.


So I give up my human rights when I work as a civil/crown servant?


That doesn't make sense. We aren't eating government employees.


No but you are abusing my rights

UNHCR # 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

As well as my rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

No valid reason exists for individual salary's to be posted just as with the blackmail scam with mugshots proves.


Partially, yes. Like all employment, when you take a job you give up part of your rights. When you take a job as a public servant you give up more than you would if you took a private sector job. This includes some human rights. The most obvious one is the right to do whatever you damn well please all the time, but there's various others. As a public servant you, for one thing, lose the right to practice your religion during the time you work, which is not something you lose in the private sector (this is because the government, and thus it's employees, cannot be allowed to be anything but neutral in matters of religion).

Read the contract you signed when you took a job. I bet it'll be entertaining and instructive. Don't take anything I say, or indeed the contract you signed, as legal advice.

You do however, retain the right to terminate your employment (no matter what the contract says, and it must be free to do so, provided a certain period of notice is respected), and get back full enjoyment of your rights.


Why there is no valid reason for individual salaries to be posted.




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