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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

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: April 2024

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Keypoint: The Central District of California issues a major victory for website owners facing CIPA-arbitration demands, two decisions address whether a plaintiff consented as a defense to wiretapping claims, three courts in...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: September 2023

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Keypoint: The past two months have seen many courts dismiss privacy claims as judges appear to be more critical of plaintiffs’ theories while other judges have allowed cases to proceed past the motion to dismiss stage....more

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BJ’s Wholesale Club Loses Bid to Dismiss Complaint Alleging Massachusetts State Law Claims for Wiretap Violations and Invasion of...

Joe Alves filed a class-action complaint against BJ’s Wholesale Club, alleging that BJ’s uses computer code, called Session Replay Code (SRC), to secretly record consumer activity on BJ’s website. Alves claims that BJ’s...more

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U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: March 2023

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Keypoint: In March 2023, more California courts tackled motions to dismiss claims that chat features violate wiretapping laws while Georgia and Minnesota courts weighed in on VPPA claims....more

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Privacy Litigation Update: Illinois class action lawsuit joins string of wiretapping claims arising out of website operator use of...

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Keypoint: In states with “two-party” consent laws, Privacy-Plaintiffs are bringing class action lawsuits against companies that use “session replay” technology on their websites. Last month in the Northern District of...more

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Lead Generation Compliance Attorney on How Use of Technologies to Track Web Session Data May Violate Law

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Attention Lead Generators. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that use of certain technologies on a websites in order to track and record web session data before obtaining affirmative consent may be a...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Workplace Surveillance and Recording

More and more, employers have considered using surveillance within the workplace, whether it is to prevent theft, measure productivity, or simply monitor what employees are doing when they are on the clock. While these are...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Smart Use of Smart Tech in Commercial Real Estate: Wiretapping Laws

Closed circuit TV now may be streamed into web storage. These cameras can recognize faces and may unlock doors for known individuals. Keyless entry systems have moved from fobs and key cards to phone apps. Motion sensors can...more

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Are Pennsylvania Employers Safe to Prohibit Recordings in the Workplace?

In an age of smartphones and wearable technology, one cannot escape the possibility that he or she is being recorded at any given time. The workplace is not immune from such possibilities as employees often carry—or sometimes...more

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Can You Videotape Someone Else’s Conversation?

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Careful about protecting the safety of his customers, A.R. Remington, owner of Fishinabarrel Gun Range, installed surveillance cameras to blanket his premises, except the restrooms. Last week while target practicing with his...more

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