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Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 14: How Employers Can Navigate Cybersecurity Issues with Brandon Robinson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney
Navigating the Digital Frontier: Employee Privacy Rights and Legal Obligations in the Modern Workplace
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Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
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The State of Texas and Meta Platforms Inc. (“Meta”) have agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement, to be paid out over five years, to resolve claims relating to Meta’s alleged use of facial recognition technology without user...more
Businesses take heed: California state officials just warned that the law prohibits you from collecting unnecessary data and retaining data for longer than necessary. The California Privacy Protection Agency published its...more
California employers, beware: the state’s top prosecutor just announced his office is conducting an investigative sweep of whether and how large California employers have complied with data privacy and consumer protection...more
On December 19, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the U.S. Department of Justice jointly announced that Epic Games Inc. (“Epic Games”) will pay two record fines, in twin settlements, totaling half a billion...more
On January 27, the FTC finalized an order with an education technology (ed tech) provider which claimed that the provider’s lax data security practices led to the exposure of millions of users and employees’ sensitive...more
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Google for alleged “blatant defiance” of Texas’s biometric privacy law, which prohibits capturing biometric identifiers without prior consumer consent. The complaint...more
Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy and Consumer Protection/FTC teams offer key takeaways from the Federal Trade Commission’s enforcement action in the midst of renewed emphasis on children’s privacy by both the Biden...more
Biometric data is becoming increasingly pervasive in our daily lives—we use it to unlock smartphones, gain entry to entertainment venues, access secured locations, and record time and attendance on the job site....more
Effective January 1, 2023, the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), will expand the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) by granting employees additional rights over their personal information. Employers will now be...more
This is the time of year for thought pieces reflecting on the past year or so to speculate on the hot topics for next year. I began to wonder about California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement actions over the past year...more
New Mexico’s Attorney General, Hector Balderas, continues to champion children’s online privacy protections, this time settling with Google over alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). ...more
Regulation of the collection and use of biometric data is on the rise, a trend which is likely to continue through 2021 and beyond. Currently, three states have laws that regulate what private businesses can do with biometric...more
On March 2, 2021, Virginia enacted the Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”). The VCDPA will become effective January 1, 2023. The VCDPA shares its roots with the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) and the recently...more
If your website collects information about its visitors, whether by name or anonymously, you are almost certainly required to make specific public disclosures about your treatment of this data and offer visitors information...more
Flo Health, Inc., (Flo) which offers a fertility-tracking app (Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker) used by more than 100 million customers, has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to dismiss the FTC’s claims...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its settlement with Everalbum Inc. (Everalbum) for its Ever app, a photo and video storage app, due to its alleged deception of consumers related to the app’s use of facial...more
It is privacy policy 101 to say what you do and do what you say. Valuable lessons can be learned about this best practice from the proposed settlement announced between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and California-based...more
On November 3, 2020, California voters convincingly approved the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) ballot initiative. The CPRA builds upon and amends the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”), aligning it more with...more
Join in-house counsel, chief privacy and information officers, and C-suite leaders for an in-depth program featuring Carlton Fields' Cybersecurity and Privacy attorneys. For companies subject to the CCPA, the law ushered...more
On March 5, 2020, Gov. Phil Scott (VT-R) signed into law amendments to the Security Breach Notice Act (the “Act”). The amendments, which originated in the State Senate as part of an initiative addressing a number of data...more
As the federal government, state governments, businesses and other entities continue their response efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the privacy and security of consumers’ personal health information remains a top...more
Join in-house counsel, chief privacy and information officers, and C-suite leaders for in-depth program featuring Carlton Fields’ Cybersecurity and Privacy attorneys. For companies subject to the CCPA, the law ushered in...more
As previously discussed in an article titled “Privacy Gone Public: How growing push for privacy laws may affect U.S. businesses,” California implemented a new consumer protection law known as the California Consumer Privacy...more
Since the first enforcement actions have been initiated, some with significant fines, many companies may find themselves somewhat at a loss as they may not fully know how to assess the risks involved and how to react should...more
On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) becomes effective, and businesses around the world will be responsible for handling the personal information of Californians in accordance with the requirements...more