No Password Required: American University’s Vice Provost for Research and Innovation and a Tracker of (Cyber) Unicorns
No Password Required: A Security Engineer and Budding Surfer Who Took PentesterLab From Side Hustle to Global Success
No Password Required: A Developer Advocate with Auth0 and an "Accordion Guy" with Rockstar Aspirations
No Password Required: Former Commander, United States Central Command, Executive Director of Cyber Florida and an Appreciator of Battlefield Beef Enchiladas
No Password Required: A Cybersecurity Education Specialist, Whose Passions Include the Forest, DIY, and Deviled Eggs
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
[Podcast] Prioritizing Cybersecurity in a Hybrid Workplace
Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Webinar Series: Password Protected: Essential Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Planning for Your Small Business
Digital Planning Podcast - Interview With Leeza Garber
Happy Password Day
Zoom Security Best Practices
Data Privacy Legislation, Part 2 (and bonus tips on teleworking from two law mamas who feel your pain!)
Compliance Perspectives: Cybervigilance and Cyber-resiliency
Life With GDPR: Episode 26- The Importance of Passwords
Employment Law This Week: Password Sharing, Organizing Mixed Units, Mental Health Accommodations, Privacy Shield
Employer Social Media Policies – Interview with Mitch Danzig, Member, Member, Mintz Levin
As More States Implement Social Media Password Laws, There’s Still Some Blind Spots
How to Protect Your Company From Hackers
The Basics of Michigan’s Social Media Password Law & Why It Isn’t Such a Great Idea
New York employers should take note of a new law that recently took effect that impacts their ability to access applicant and employee social media accounts. The law applies to all employers covered by the New York Labor Law...more
As a reminder, beginning March 12, 2024, Labor Law 201-i prohibits employers from requesting, requiring or coercing an employee or job applicant to: (i) disclose a username and password or other login information in order to...more
Many companies have implemented Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) policies. For some, it has been years since they were put in place. Has your policy withstood the test of time? Employees are using their devices differently than...more
In August 2013, Arkansas enacted a statute intended to regulate employers’ ability to access social media account of employees. This statute, entitled “Social Media Accounts of Current and Prospective Employees,” applies to...more
Employers who use E-Verify to confirm their employees are eligible to work in the United States will be required to reset their E-Verify password, security questions, and answers when they log in to the system on or after...more
Ensuring the online safety and security of a workplace is only possible through the joint efforts of all the employees using a company’s computer systems. The failure to maintain a secure network environment can result in...more
Workplace vandalism is so . . . brick and mortar. An employer recently posted a vacant job online. Some people applied for the jobs, and some of them were African-American women. ...more
For many companies, customer information ranks among its most important assets. Yet these days, employees often keep this sensitive customer information in electronic locations that are not readily accessible to or controlled...more
On the last day of the 2016 Regular Session, the West Virginia Legislature passed a bill that will require all West Virginia employers to evaluate their social media policies and practices. HB 4364, known as the Internet...more
Maine has become the latest state to restrict employers’ ability to access social media accounts of employees and applicants. A new Maine statute, which will go into effect on October 15, 2015, prohibits a broad range of...more
With social media pervading all facets of society (no less than 67 percent of Americans are regular users), businesses have long been concerned with their employees’ potentially detrimental social media activities. As these...more
As the old Bob Dylan song goes, “the times they are a-changin’.” While I suspect his message may have been intended for a more meaningful topic than social media employee privacy laws, his words do ring true. When Maryland...more
Keeping track of the latest changes to federal employment laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), to name just a few, is hard...more
Connecticut has joined a list of twenty-one states with a statute designed to preserve the privacy of personal online accounts of employees and limit the use of information related to such accounts in employment...more
Breathing a sigh of relief that he neither works for U.S. agencies requiring security clearances nor do his hiring policies require the details of mental illnesses, drug and alcohol use, past arrests, bankruptcies, Joe Hyre...more
Effective July 1, 2015, employers in Virginia will have to comply with a new law limiting their access to employees’ and applicants’ social media accounts. The new law prohibits employers from requiring employees or...more
March 30, 2015 Authors: Philip Gordon and Joon Hwang As many state legislatures open their 2015 sessions, Virginia has become the first this year — and most likely not the last — to continue the legislative trend towards...more
All Tennessee employers and their agents must now comply with the “Employee Online Privacy Act of 2014,” a new law that prohibits employers from asking their employees for their usernames and passwords to social media sites,...more
Just a quick holiday reminder that Tennessee's new password protection law goes into effect next Thursday, January 1, 2015. Under the new law, employers can no longer...more
The innovative folks at Zappos have eschewed the traditional job application/interview/job offer process for a social-media-driven process on a Zappos platform. While very up-to-date, does this push the envelope to the point...more
On May 22, 2014, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law the "Personal Online Account Privacy Protection Act." The measure, effective immediately, bans employers, including state and local governments, from requesting...more
On April 8, 2014, Governor Scott Walker signed Wisconsin Act 208 to prohibit employers from requiring or requesting that prospective and current employees disclose usernames and passwords for their personal Internet accounts....more
Wisconsin has become the thirteenth state to enact a law limiting the circumstances under which employers may request or require access to the personal internet accounts of applicants and employees. The 2013 Wisconsin Act...more
2013 was a busy year for employment law in New Jersey. This newsletter summarizes noteworthy developments in ten key areas—social media, the Law Against Discrimination ("LAD"), whistleblowing, background checks, drug and...more
On August 29, 2013, New Jersey became the latest jurisdiction to enact legislation which prohibits employers from requiring job candidates or current employees to provide their user names and passwords to personal social...more