In the wake of COVID-19, many organizations found themselves transitioning to the remote world of telework. Just months later, as states begin lifting precautionary stay-at-home orders, organizations find themselves straddling the transition back to work-as-usual in a COVID-19 conscious world, as well as balancing continued telework operations. As organizations strive to reboot day-to-day physical operations,…
Online meeting platform use has surged due to events that have unfolded over the past few months, making digital communication an integral part of many day to day business operations. Many organizations discovered that online meeting platforms can provide a convenient form of communication and collaboration between team members operating in telework environments. However, along…
Click here to access our U.S. Return to Work Checklist addressing workplace safety obligations, anti-discrimination obligations, employee accommodation and leave obligations, data protection and privacy obligations, and record retention obligations for employers as they bring employees back to work as state “Stay at Home” orders related to COVID-19 are lifted.
California citizens will most likely be asked to vote this November on a new privacy protection ballot initiative—the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA,” aka “CCPA 2.0”). This latest measure aims to more closely mirror the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) by establishing broader consumer privacy rights than the current California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)…
California’s Attorney General, Xavier Becerra (the AG), has no plans to delay enforcement of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA or the Act) during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Although the CCPA went into effect on January 1, 2020, the statute does not authorize enforcement of the Act to begin until July 1, 2020, or…
On April 30, 2020, Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announced his plan to introduce the “COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act.” The bill, which is co-sponsored by three Republican Senators—Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)—aims to protect consumer geolocation…
LinkedIn is challenging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s September ruling that the data aggregation and analytics company, hiQ Labs, Inc., can “scrape” personal data of users from LinkedIn’s platform, analyze the data, and sell its findings to employers. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court granted an extension for LinkedIn to submit…
Laura Clark Fey presented Lessons Learned from Recent Data Breaches & Ten Critical Steps to Reduce Your Organization’s Risk of Becoming the Next Data Breach Victim at the IMA Kansas City Fall Conference, on October 25, 2019, at Parkville, Missouri. Huge data breaches continue to make headlines. Billions of personal data records have been breached…
Laura Clark Fey presented Lessons Learned from Recent Data Breaches & Ten Critical Steps to Reduce Your Organization’s Risk of Becoming the Next Data Breach Victim at the Association of Corporate Counsels, Mid-America Chapter, on October 9, 2019, at Omaha, Nebraska. Huge data breaches continue to make headlines. Billions of personal data records have been…
On October 10, the California Attorney General released the long-awaited proposed regulations (“CCPA Regulations” or “Regulations”) for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). As noted in the press release announcing the CCPA Regulations, the Regulations are intended to operationalize the CCPA, provide additional guidance to consumers and businesses subject to the CCPA, and address some…
At the IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2019 conference on September 25, 2019, Laura Clark Fey, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, PLS, Principal with Fey LLC; Jill Cusack, FIP, Privacy Officer, American Fidelity; and Christopher Kunke, CIPP/US, VP, Information and Technology, Corporate Legal, MGM Studios will present ……….Data: Here, There, Everywhere? Operationalizing Data Management Strategies This panel discussion will explore the…
A future where facial recognition, fingerprints, and other biometrics are used for payments without needing a credit card, smartwatch, or mobile phone to facilitate the payment may not be too far off. Fey LLC’s Hannah Zimmerman was interviewed for a MarketWatch article, Silicon Valley’s Final Frontier for Mobile Payments – ‘The Neoliberal Takeover of the…
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