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
Wearable device data may be the next big thing in the world of evidence for employment cases since social media. Given that it has already been used in personal injury and criminal cases, it is only a matter of time before...more
9/26/2016
/ Admissible Evidence ,
Disability Benefits ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fitbit ,
Harassment ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Inadmissible Evidence ,
Objections ,
Popular ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Wearable Technology ,
Workplace Injury ,
Young Lawyers
Seyfarth Synopsis: Pokémon GO’s popularity is at a fever pitch. However, the game poses several risks for employers including software security, privacy and workplace safety concerns.
Your employees may be on a quest...more
Over the last decade, communication via email and text has become a vital part of how many of us communicate in the workplace. In fact, most employees could not fathom the idea of performing their jobs without the use of...more
5/2/2016
/ ECPA ,
Electronic Monitoring ,
Email ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Invasion of Privacy ,
Misappropriation ,
Popular ,
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy ,
Stored Communications Act ,
Text Messages ,
Trade Secrets ,
Workplace Communication
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 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