Rise of the Genome
David MunkittrickWe pack tons of personal and sensitive information in our DNA. While the human genome has been mapped for a decade, legal issues of genetic privacy are just beginning to rise....
View ArticleNY Court of Appeals Permits Warrantless GPS Tracking of Government Employees
Kevin KhuranaOn June 27, 2013, the NY Court of Appeals held that the state can use GPS tracking to monitor its employees during working hours without a warrant. Click here to read Proskauer’s...
View ArticleIn France, Are Employers Entitled to Access Their Employees’ Personal Emails?
Cecile MartinIn France, the guiding principle is that emails received or sent by an employee through the employer’s company email account are considered “professional”, which means that the employer...
View ArticleCNIL Cracks Down on Employee Video Monitoring and Password Strength
Cecile MartinIn a recent decision (deliberation CNIL May 30, 2013 n°2013-139), the French Data Protection Agency (CNIL) sanctioned a company for implementing a CCTV system without informing employees...
View ArticleFrench DPA Issues Robust Model Regulation for Biometric Access Controls in...
Laura E. Goldsmith and Mathilde Pepin In late March, the French Data Protection Authority, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (“CNIL”) released a model regulation (the “Model...
View ArticlePrivacy Considerations for Employers and Health Care Providers When...
Ryan Blaney, Kelly McMullon and Mathilde Pepin This alert focuses on the ongoing and developing privacy issues that have arisen for employers and healthcare providers communicating about the 2019 novel...
View ArticleConnecticut Joins States That Protect Personal Online Accounts of Employees
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...
View ArticleDistrict Court Rules That Smartphone Passcodes Are Testimonial; Protected by...
In Securities and Exchange Commission v. Huang, the district court held that the Fifth Amendment protected two former employees against having to disclose their personal passcodes for company-issued...
View ArticleGerman DPAs Announce Policy Severely Limiting Mechanisms for Lawful...
Over the course of the coming weeks, we will examine the various options available to companies in light of the European Court of Justice’s (CJEU) decision invalidating the US-EU Safe Harbor framework,...
View ArticleHappy “Labor …” More Privacy Rights for Employees: California Legislature...
As summer nears its end, uncertainty and complexity lie ahead for many companies as they evaluate how to operationalize compliance with the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), existing California...
View Article
