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Miller Canfield

Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Spotlight on Confidentiality Concerns

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Generative artificial intelligence (“GAI”) has the potential to revolutionize efficiency and productivity in our day-to-day working lives. But while this technology is becoming more sophisticated by the day, companies should...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

I’m Listening: BC Appeal Court Confirms that Secretly Recording Colleagues Constitutes Just Cause

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In Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2023 BCCA 373 (“Shalagin”), the British Columbia Court of Appeal affirmed that surreptitiously recording fellow employees may constitute just cause....more

BakerHostetler

The Potential Risks of ChatGPT and Other Generative AI

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“Shall we play a game?” Those innocuous words “spoken” by Matthew Broderick’s computer in John Badham’s sci-fi techno-thriller War Games stunned audiences at the time. A computer that could “talk” and “think” and engage in...more

Sands Anderson PC

Dead Men Tell No Tales, But Can Their Lawyers? A Lawyer’s Duty to Disclose the Death of a Client

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Consider the scenario in which opposing counsel provided a settlement offer that the client approved, but the lawyer has not communicated its acceptance to opposing counsel prior to the client’s death. A zealous advocate may...more

HaystackID

[Webcast Transcript] Remote Security for Distributed Workforces: Review Challenges and Considerations

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Editor’s Note: On March 17, 2021, HaystackID shared an educational webcast designed to inform and update legal and data discovery professionals on how organizations are preparing and responding to increasing security and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Defense Options After Calif. High Court Call-Recording Ruling

On April 1, the California Supreme Court ruled in Smith v. LoanMe Inc. that California Penal Code Section 632.7 prohibits both parties to a communication and nonparties, such as an individual who covertly intercepts and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

California Supreme Court Increases Privacy Protections for Covered Cellular Communications

The California Supreme Court overturned the California Court of Appeals to hold that a party to a phone call can violate California Penal Code section 632.7 by recording the conversation without the consent of the other...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Alexa, can you hear my clients? Confidentiality Obligations in the Coronavirus Work from Home Era

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Confidentiality is fundamental to the client-lawyer relationship. Are you talking to your lawyer within earshot of a family member or a third person? Are you talking to your lawyer within earshot of a listening device?...more

Troutman Pepper

Google Health's Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns

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Google Health’s Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns - Recently, Google has been at the center of privacy concerns due to its health- sharing collaborations with the University of Chicago Medical Center (the Medical Center)...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

A Value Add to Employee Security Education: Mobile Apps

While we have been talking about the very important message of educating employees about data security, I find that giving employees tips about their personal data security keeps them interested and engaged during education...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

NLRB: Employer’s Reasons For Policy Changes Kept Union’s Information Request Alive Even After Proposals Withdrawn

Information requests in the realm of labor relations are simple in theory but can be complicated in practice. We have seen how the topics of information sought by a union can cause skirmishes, sometimes deliberately so. We...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: How Much "I" is TMI?

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In a Privacy Peril last month we noted steps you can take to lockdown your Facebook account so you are not inadvertently sharing data with unintended third parties. While recent revelations have disclosed how extensively...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Customs and Border Patrol Issue New Rules for Searching Devices at Borders

We previously reported that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have been stopping U.S. citizens at the borders of the United States and demanding passwords for access to mobile devices. According to CBP, 19,051 mobile...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Public Access Policy Requirements Begin January 6, 2018

Effective on January 6, 2018, the PA Supreme Court’s “Public Access Policy” adds significant new requirements related to information contained in documents filed in Pennsylvania’s courts, including the Orphans’ Court Division...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

A Cautionary Tale: UK Intelligence Data Found on Thumb Drive in London Street

Not all cybersecurity risks are the stuff of super-secret code hacks or high-tech digital attacks. One of the biggest culprits: off-the-shelf thumb drives (also known as flash drives or memory sticks) that you can purchase...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #94 – Keep Your Day Job and Stay Out of Jail

One of my favorite lines when I conduct employee education about data privacy and cybersecurity is “Keep Your Day Job.” The context of the comment is when I tell audiences about the dumb moves of employees who think they can...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Searches of Devices at the U.S. Border

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Although longstanding policy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorizes searches of electronic devices in the possession of travelers arriving in the United States, recent reports of such searches...more

Zelle  LLP

Who Needs to Know?

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Personnel issues generate great stories. The work that HR professionals, in-house counsel, and employment lawyers do is full of human drama and often very interesting. It’s natural for people to want to know what’s behind...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Law Firm Sued for Alleged Lax Data Security Obtains Significant Win in District Court

Back in December of last year, we reported that for the first time, a U.S. law firm – Johnson & Bell, a mid-sized Chicago firm – was publicly named in a class action data security lawsuit. Last month, the firm obtained a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #74 – What to Do About Customs and Border Patrol

There has been lots of talk about the ripple effects of the Trump travel ban. But here’s a new twist I hadn’t heard before—U.S. Customs and Border Control (CBP) agents are detaining U.S. citizens and requiring them to unlock...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

BYOD – Another reasonable basis for discovery about discovery

I still remember typewriters. Heck, I still remember carbon paper, mimeographs and bag phones. Would a company, “back in the day”, have ever asked an employee, “hey, we need you to bring your own typewriter, desk,...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Police Arrest Videos Not Considered Confidential

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The California Supreme Court recently denied considering an appellate court ruling from a case in Eureka that police arrest videos cannot be considered confidential officer personnel records and therefore kept from public...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Florida Court Holds Budget Request Forms and Activity and Service Fee Records Not “Educational Records”

On August 11, 2016, a Florida state court judge held that the University Central Florida Board of Trustees (“UCF”) must produce Budget Request forms and Activity and Service Fee Database records to Knight News, Inc. (“KNI”)...more

Carlton Fields

Rule Change Would Let Law Enforcement Access Computers Remotely Regardless of Location

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The Supreme Court recently adopted a proposed change to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that would allow a federal judge to issue warrants authorizing government agents to access computers located in any...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Challenging a CFPB Civil Investigative Demand Can Be Done without Revealing a Company Is Being Investigated

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One of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) key investigative and enforcement tools is to issue Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs), a form of an administrative subpoena that requires the recipient to produce...more

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