Seyfarth Synopsis: A string of recent class action lawsuits regarding businesses’ use of employees’ biometric data should put employers on heightened alert regarding compliance with various state biometric privacy laws....more
10/3/2017
/ Best Practices ,
Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Class Action ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Pending Legislation ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Privacy Laws ,
Risk Management ,
Standard of Care ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes
Last week, the government of Australia released an “Exposure Draft” of a bill that, if passed into law, would amend Australia’s Privacy Act to require notification to the government and affected individuals in the event of a...more
In an interim final rule published on October 2, another layer has been added to the compliance landscape for defense contractors. In addition to complying with breach notification requirements in as many as 47 different...more
With the recent uptick in the U.S. of lawsuits filed as a result of a data breaches, state legislators in the U.S. have been busy updating the many different state laws that dictate how a company must respond if they have...more
In any case involving a data breach of customer or employee information, the first line of defense for the defendant is to assert that the plaintiff(s) lack standing to bring suit. In Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group, the...more
In what is quickly becoming the newest trending topic in class action litigation, another class action has been filed alleging the disclosure of employee personally identifiable information due to a cyber attack.
This...more
7/7/2015
/ Background Checks ,
Class Action ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Public Employees ,
Public Employers ,
Public Sector Unions ,
Third-Party Liability ,
Vendors