Recent report: the Welfare of employees snooping on friends, family, celebrities and in employment – Aftenposten

the Nav sits on a huge scope of personal data on a long list of norwegians. In the last year was 2.8 million norwegians, i.e. over half of the population, services from the agency.

In their systems they may have they including stored information about people’s health and family relationships, about people have been linked to a criminal offense, whether the person’s economic conditions and whether people have adressesperre justified in danger of “injury to life, body or health”.

In a recent report prepared by the auditing company BDO and the law firm Wiersholm for the Nav, it is pointed out that the employees perform a variety of searches without the tjenstlig needs.

In the recent report drawn up that the snokes on celebrities, family, colleagues, friends – and when individual searches on the job at Nav.

Every fifth know snooping

Of 8474 employees, which corresponds to approx. 40 percent of those who are employed in Nav, black a little over a fifth of them in a survey in connection with the work of the recent report that they had heard about the postings without tjenstlig needs. 37 per cent of these responded that they had heard about two to five cases.

There is a lookup on relationships, friends and themselves, according to the report happens most frequently:

• Studies show that 12 per cent of the employees had done a lookup on itself in February and april.
• In the same period was ca. 11 per cent of 12.500 employees in the NAV done a lookup on one or more of the close family.
• Approx. 11 percent of the employees in Nav had done a lookup on one or more employees in april in the period.
• 26 percent of those who participated in the survey, who had knowledge of the unauthorized postings, had knowledge that it was made spread to acquaintances to co-workers.

Search up celebrities

In addition, revealed the survey that the snokes in saksmappene to celebrities. 22 of the respondents answered that they had knowledge of the notice on famous people. Logganalyser, which was done in the work with the report shows that at least one person has been sought up of 108 different employees.

“Curiosity and self-interest must be stated most frequently as the reason for the lookup without tjenstlige needs”, it goes to the fresh report.

While at the same time the forward of the report that the employees in the interview responded that some of the searches are done in training and testøyemed, and that individual has applied up the folders to the acquaintances because they themselves have the desired information about, for example, an ongoing case processing in stønadssak.

be Searched for by hiring

Something else that is revealed in the interviews that were made in the work with the report, are instances of the lookup where it has been applied for vacant positions in Nav.

Also in the survey responded 13 percent of the employees who knew of the unauthorized postings, knew that this had been done in employment.

“Some HR staff have explained that the entity leaders is required requested søkelister, made the lookup in the technical systems and then addressed to HR with a recommendation whether or not to hire some of the applicants”, said the report.

This is a problems that should have been taken up with the local entity leaders is required earlier, but still has the problem been recurring, according to the report.

Get outspoken criticism

Also in the previous reports from the Beyond, the data Inspectorate and the Register of internal audit process, it has emerged that the agency’s processing of personal data is not satisfactory.

In the report from BDO and Wiersholm get Nav strong criticism that they do not have the ability in understanding the significance of how personal information should be processed.

“NAV has repeatedly been made aware of conditions that should gave the user privacy and the processing of personal data was lifted on the strategic agenda and thus given the work of protecting users’ privacy the necessary priority. This seems not to be done”, said the report.

It is serious that a large public body does not have this care, ” says Helge Veum, chief technology officer at the data Inspectorate the Norwegian broadcasting corporation NRK.

Nav-director: – It is not okay

In a press release, ” says Sigrun Vågeng, the ministry of labour and velferdsdirektør in the Nav, that it is not acceptable to do the lookup as it is revealed in the report.

– This is not okay. We have a lot of information about people, something that is absolutely necessary that we should be able to do our job. Then our users can be confident that we will treat information about them in a proper way, ” says Vågeng.

She says that they should take action.

– We are going to create a separate position as personvernombud in the NAV, we should have attention on the subject at the management level of the agency we and go thoroughly through the report to see what other measures we can put in the time quickly. In addition, we will communicate clearly, internally, that it is to do the lookup without tjenstlige needs are not okay and that it can have an impact on the employment relationship, ” she says in the press release.