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AI & Privacy Laws are Changing Fast - Are Your Websites, Mobile Apps and Contracts Keeping Up?

Lathrop GPM on 1/27/2025

The new year serves as a reminder that – at least annually – businesses of all sizes should review their websites, applications and other data-related resources to ensure that they are up to date. Scheduling a regular cadence...more

AI and Employee Data Protection in the European Union: 8 Key Takeaways for Multinational Businesses

Fisher Phillips on 12/31/2024

Advancements in artificial intelligence and digitalization are changing the world of work at a rapid pace. In particular, when AI systems are used as workforce management tools, employers can automate a large number of tasks...more

Employment Practices and Data Protection: Monitoring Workers 101

K&L Gates LLP on 3/27/2024

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently published guidance for employers on monitoring workers lawfully, transparently and fairly. The guidance aims to protect workers’ data protection rights and help...more

Employee Data Increasingly in the Crosshairs of Data Privacy Enforcement

Latham & Watkins LLP on 7/20/2023

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

Employee Data Protection 101

Osano on 3/31/2023

For the most part, businesses gather employee data without too much thought. Sure, some data is obviously private, like employee social security numbers, but other than that, businesses can pretty much do what they want with...more

CPRA Countdown: What employers need to know about the CPRA's potential impact on litigation - This is the eighth installment in...

Hogan Lovells on 9/8/2022

To date, employee data has been largely exempt from the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). However, effective January 1, 2023, the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), will remove the...more

Looking Back at Data Privacy Developments in 2021: Part One – the U.S.

Epiq on 1/5/2022

With the start of a new year, it is the perfect time to reflect on major legal movement with consumer privacy last year both in the U.S. and abroad. Data privacy is a hot issue that will continue to trend as more countries...more

China Promulgates New Personal Information Protection Law

WilmerHale on 8/31/2021

China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL or the final version), following the first two readings in October 2020 and April 2021, was adopted on August 20, 2021 and will become effective on November 1, 2021. The final...more

COVID-19 and vaccinations – employment and data privacy considerations

Hogan Lovells on 3/30/2021

The roll-out of vaccinations against Covid-19 is gathering pace in the UK and on the current timetable all adults will have been offered a first vaccine by the end of July....more

5 Data Privacy Insights in the Time of COVID-19

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 7/9/2020

As businesses around the globe prepared to meet the demands of new data privacy laws and regulations in 2020, the world was thrown a curveball in the form of COVID-19....more

COVID-19 in France: Personal Data Protection in the Workplace

Morgan Lewis on 4/29/2020

As prevention measures against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic bump into the principles and guidelines of the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), the French Data Protection Authority has reinforced essential...more

COVID-19 and Data Protection Compliance: Italy

White & Case LLP on 4/24/2020

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 and its development into a global pandemic, organizations have been implementing exceptional measures to safeguard employees, customers and others against the health threat that is being...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - March 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/31/2020

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine comments from the California attorney general's office regarding the start date for enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act in light of...more

Austria: OK to Collect Workers’ Contact Info During Pandemic To Facilitate Efficient Communication

Fox Rothschild LLP on 3/23/2020

C The Austrian Data Protection Authority weighs in on Coronavirus and GDPR: •Employers may collect the personal contact information of employees for the purpose of efficient communication during the pandemic. This...more

COVID-19: What Companies Need to Know About Data Privacy

Latham & Watkins LLP on 3/18/2020

Effective measures to combat data risks resulting from COVID-19 include processing personal data, but companies must balance privacy rights and employee health. German data protection authorities have published initial...more

France Continues to Focus on Use of Biometrics

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/3/2019

The French CNIL (the country’s data protection authority) has released rules for how companies can use the biometric information of their employees. Fingerprint scanning is a popular method for “clocking in” around the globe,...more

Meet the CCPA: New Privacy Rules for California Employees

BCLP on 3/5/2019

Employers with operations in California should be aware of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), a new privacy law that applies to data collected about California-based employees. HR professionals should be aware...more

California and European Privacy FAQs: Can a company share information about its employees as part of due diligence with a...

BCLP on 2/22/2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") was enacted in early 2018 as a political compromise to stave off a poorly drafted, and plaintiff’s friendly ballot initiative. Although the CCPA is scheduled to go into force in...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2018 #5

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/4/2018

It has been reported that a hacker was able to break into the servers of TheTruthSpy, a company that is described as “one of the most notorious stalkerware companies out there” (Motherboard, August 2018) and was able to steal...more

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