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Viral Layoffs: Important Considerations for Employment Actions in the Digital Age

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Social media usage remains ubiquitous in 2024, and a recent trend sees the increased use of social media by employees to document their experiences with layoffs and disciplinary actions in the workplace. ...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Corporations in Israel must have Official Digital Address

Promulgated in June 2022, the Digital Communications with Public Bodies Law introduced several new amendments, as well as updated the Companies Law. The main purpose of the law is to enable the receipt of mail from defined...more

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IOENGINE v. Ingenico: Are Electronic Communications Fair Game for the Printed Matter Doctrine?

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In IOENGINE, LLC v. Ingenico Inc.,2021-1227 (Fed. Cir. May 3, 2024), the Federal Circuit reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) determination that certain claim features did not carry patentable weight under the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

DOJ and FTC “Signal” That Companies Cannot “Slack” on Preserving Ephemeral Messages

On January 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a joint statement reinforcing document preservation obligations for companies and individuals...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Alberta Gains New Tort of Harassment and Limits Defamation By Government Actors—Online and IRL

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Court Unveils Four-Part Harassment Lawsuit Test A bold Alberta Court of King's Bench decision, Alberta Health Services v Johnston, 2023 ABKB 209, declined to follow Ontario appellate authority on the issue and established the...more

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Digital Decision Making: Community Association Board of Directors Can Conduct Business Electronically

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This year at the 2023 Community Associations Institute (CAI) Law Seminar in New Orleans, Louisiana, one breakout session focused on Boards of Directors conducting Association business electronically through various modern...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

The Technology, Media and Telecommunications Review, 13th Edition - Japan

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This 13th edition of The Technology, Media and Telecommunications Review provides updated overviews of legal and policy constructs and developments in the TMT arena across 18 jurisdictions around the world. As in years past,...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Con efficacia immediata: i datori di lavoro di New York devono ora rendere disponibili in formato elettronico tutti gli annunci...

In data 16 dicembre 2022, il governatore Kathy Hochul ha firmato un emendamento con efficacia immediata alla sezione 201 della legge sul lavoro ove si richiede che tutti gli annunci esposti obbligatoriamente nel luogo di...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

New York Employers Must Provide Digital Workplace Posters

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In addition to the increasing number of posters employers are required to physically display, effective December 16, 2022, New York employers must now furnish all employees with digital copies of all required posters via...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Banks Fined $2 Billion for Employees’ “Off-Channel” Communications—Is Your Industry at Risk?

On September 27, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settlements against 11 major financial institutions, resolving an industry sweep into employees improperly using personal messaging...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

What's Up With WhatsApp? Regulators Recently Fine Firms $1.8 Billion in Aggregate for "Off-Channel" Communications

Recent alleged recordkeeping failures resulted in aggregate fines in excess of $1.8 billion levied against 11 Wall Street financial institutions and many of their affiliated entities by the Securities and Exchange Commission...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Emergency Text Messages Can Save Lives in a Pandemic Without Running Afoul of the TCPA

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Communication is critical in an emergency. It can save lives, mitigate disasters, and, importantly, prevent the spread of disease....more

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Why Adobe Experience Manager Creates Unique Web Archiving Challenges For Compliance

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Is your organization using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to create user-level individualized website experiences? If so, kudos to you and your marketing team. We’ve been blown away by the degree of granularity and...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Internet Privacy – ISP Snooping and U.S. Surveillance Laws

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It’s hard to imagine a world in which the U.S. Postal Service is permitted to peer inside our personal mail, or gather and track the address and other data we place on our mail, and then use and sell what it learns about us....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Controversy looms over ECPA amendment in wake of Orlando terrorist attack

After the terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida, early this month, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) has been discussed quite a bit. The ECPA, a law which took effect in 1986, limits the government’s access to...more

McDermott Will & Emery

California Joins Other States with the Passage of CalECPA

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Law enforcement requests for electronic information, particularly from technology companies such as Google and Twitter, have skyrocketed in recent years. In response, several states—Maine and Texas in 2013, Utah in 2014 and...more

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