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Wellness Apps and Privacy

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/30/2024

Employers looking to enhance their suite of employee benefit programs, and focused on lessons learned during the pandemic on wellbeing, are interested in providing greater access to wellness tools. And, the vendors who...more

With a Key Deadline Fast Approaching, Now Is the Time to Address the New and Complex Requirements for Data Transfers Outside of...

Littler on 9/25/2023

U.S.-based multinationals with employees in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are confronting a November 30 deadline to implement China’s new cross-border data transfer mechanism—the Standard Contract. This implementation...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 3, March 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/3/2023

Amazon Sued for Not Telling New York Store Customers about Tracking Biometrics - “Thanks to a 2021 law, New York is the only major American city to require businesses to post signs letting customers know they’re tracking...more

IWD job service claims theft a growing problem

Dentons on 4/26/2021

Many employers are facing growing problems with identity theft in a new way: data is being used to file false claims including requests for job service benefits and SBA loans through the PPP, among others. To address this...more

Do You Have a Backup Payroll Plan?

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/5/2021

What do you do if your HR benefits and payroll vendor suffers a cyber-attack and payroll can’t be run? Do you have a backup plan for running payroll? How will you communicate with your employees?...more

What Employers Should Know About the California Consumer Privacy Act Taking Effect January 1, 2020

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 10/3/2019

On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a consumer-friendly privacy law inspired by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, is set to take effect. The CCPA is aimed towards bolstering...more

Biometric Privacy Class Actions By The Numbers: Analyzing Illinois’ Hottest Class Action Trend

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/2/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: Over the last few years, Illinois companies have quickly become aware of the risks associated with the state’s unique biometric privacy law. Originally passed in 2008, the Illinois Biometric Information...more

Strict Privacy and Data Security Bill Introduced in North Carolina

Fisher Phillips on 5/13/2019

Early last year, I posted about tougher, bi-partisan privacy and data security legislation in the works in North Carolina. North Carolina State Representative Jason Saine (R), Senior Appropriations Chair, teamed-up with North...more

New Year, New Data Security Requirement: South Carolina Adopts New Data Security Law

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/7/2019

On January 1st, South Carolina became the first state to adopt the model insurance data security law requiring certain insurance licensees to investigate and report cybersecurity events in the state of South Carolina. The law...more

Lawsuit Alert: New State Law Affirmative Duty to Safeguard Personal Data

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/3/2019

Now a business that was hacked may be successfully sued under state common law by data subjects whose information was compromised in the crime. For the first time, a state supreme court has held that a company that was...more

Data Breach Liability for Pennsylvania Employers Expands – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds that Employers Have a Duty of Care to...

Fisher Phillips on 12/31/2018

Data breach liability for Pennsylvania employers of all sizes expanded with a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision in Dittman v. UPMC. __ A.3d __, No. 43 WAP 2017, 2018 WL 6072199 (Pa. 2018). The Pennsylvania Supreme...more

Pennsylvania High Court’s Dittman Ruling Makes It Harder To Dismiss Data Breach Actions

Fenwick & West LLP on 12/20/2018

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that employers have “a legal duty to safeguard” the personal data of their employees which is stored on internet-accessible computer systems and that the economic loss doctrine...more

Client Alert – Employers Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Data Theft

Bowditch & Dewey on 12/18/2018

Because cybercriminals don’t take holidays, December is an appropriate time for all employers to take steps to protect tax data and identities (both their own and their employees’) in advance of the 2019 tax-filing season....more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Employers Have a Duty to Exercise Reasonable Care to Safeguard Sensitive Personal Information...

K&L Gates LLP on 12/17/2018

To date, Pennsylvania has not adopted a comprehensive law specifying how sensitive personal information about individuals must be secured or the protections that holders of this information must use to minimize risk of...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Employers Owe Duty to Safeguard Sensitive Employee Information

Saul Ewing LLP on 12/12/2018

Pennsylvania’s highest court recently issued a major decision that impacts employers and their storage of sensitive employee information in two important ways. First, the court imposed a new duty on employers to use...more

Employers May Be Liable for the Release of Employees' Personally Identifying Information in Data Breaches

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 12/7/2018

It seems that reports of hackers breaching a business’s security measures to obtain customer information appear on an almost weekly basis. Unfortunately, businesses need to worry not only about the unauthorized access of...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Recognizes Employers’ Duty to Safeguard Employees’ Personal Data

Saul Ewing LLP on 12/5/2018

In a unanimous ruling that is sure to become a landmark in state litigation over data breaches, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on November 21 held that “an employer has a legal duty to exercise reasonable care to safeguard...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Employers Have an Affirmative Duty to Protect Workers’ Personal Data from Cybercriminals:...

Snell & Wilmer on 12/3/2018

In a landmark decision with far-reaching implication, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that employers have an affirmative duty to protect their employees’ personal information from criminal hacking. In particular,...more

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