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The new Illinois Senate Bill 0508 (Act), which will take effect January 1, 2025, contains numerous amendments to the existing Illinois Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Under the Act, Illinois employers enrolled in the...more
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The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority recently published a statement presenting its position and recommendations on privacy protection as it pertains to the collection of employee geolocation data using designated...more
The California Attorney General’s investigative sweep is a potential harbinger of increased focus on employers’ data privacy compliance with respect to employee data. On July 14, 2023, the California Attorney General...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
Following the passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), for the past two years, employers have been partially exempt from many of the California Consumer Privacy Act's (CCPA) mandates pertaining to applicants,...more
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As a recent viral Tik-Tok video made clear, younger professionals are beginning to recognize that employers could be monitoring their workplace communications – which may mean that you will want to revisit your policies and...more
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Employee communications and use of company devices are often key issues in trade secret and related litigation. United States law, for the most part, has been very supportive of an employer’s ability to engage in aggressive...more
California employers have navigated the ever-changing privacy landscape when it comes to employee and personnel personal information (“human resources data”). For years, California employers’ obligations were narrow in scope...more
Senate Bill S2628 went into effect on May 7, 2022. The bill, which was signed into law by Governor Hochul on November 8, 2021, requires all private sector employers—regardless of size, number of employees, or entity type—to...more
New York State’s recently enacted law requiring notice of electronic monitoring goes into effect on May 7, 2022. To comply with the law, private employers with a place of business in New York must (1) provide notice to new...more
Pursuant to an amendment to the New York Civil Rights Law that will take effect on May 7, 2022, private-sector employers that monitor their employees’ use of telephones, email, and the internet must notify employees of any...more
Any private employer with a place of business in New York that “monitors or otherwise intercepts” any employee’s telephone conversations, emails, or internet access or usage by “any electronic device or system” must give...more
New York will soon require employers to provide written notice to employees if they monitor or intercept employee telephone conversations or transmissions, emails, or internet access or usage. As discussed in our prior...more
On February 24, 2022, the Ontario government announced (the “Announcement”) its plan to introduce legislation that would require Ontario employers to inform their employees if and how they are being monitored electronically....more
Private employers in New Jersey need to be aware of the latest employee privacy law that will take effect on April 18, 2022. A. B. 3950 prohibits employers from knowingly using a “tracking device” in a vehicle used by an...more
In the last few years, a flurry of state privacy legislation has bolstered protections for everything from biometric data to rights of deletion. Location data is no exception. The latest statute, New Jersey’s Assembly Bill...more
On February 24, 2022, Ontario announced that later this month, in an effort to protect the privacy of employees, it will be the first province to introduce legislation requiring employers to tell their workers if and how they...more
On November 8, 2021, New York amended its Civil Rights Law to require employers to notify employees if their use of e-mail, telephone systems, computer systems and the like are subject to monitoring or interception by the...more
Beginning May 7, 2022, employers that monitor their employees’ electronic communications are required to provide written notice to current employees and to new employees, upon hiring. The new legislation, signed into law on...more
New York recently enacted a law governing employee monitoring. The law applies to New York employers who monitor employees through electronic devices. This includes monitoring of telephone, emails, and internet access or...more
Earlier this month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into a law a bill that will require New York private sector employers to provide written notice to employees before engaging in electronic monitoring of their...more
On November 9, 2021, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill that will require employers in New York State who engage in any electronic monitoring of employees’ telephone, email and internet access and usage to...more