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Privacy and Data Protection Issues for Employees in the COVID-19 Environment
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Recent developments at the federal government level have generated increasing questions regarding employer’s requirements to cooperate with law enforcement at the local level. Law enforcement may have a variety of reasons for...more
Last week, a class action was filed against NewsBank, Inc., a Florida-based news database company, related to a 2024 breach of employee personal information. NewsBank provides a database of archived news publications...more
On February 5 2025, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) released new guidance designed to help employers understand and comply with their obligations under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 in relation...more
On October 8, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB-947, which expanded the category of “sensitive personal information” to include citizenship or immigration status. The category of sensitive personal...more
Earlier this year, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) revised its guideline, Privacy in the Workplace, which addresses employee rights and workplace obligations with respect to employee personal...more
On July 14, 2023, the California Attorney General announced an investigative sweep targeting CCPA compliance efforts by “large California employers.” The Attorney General’s Office sent inquiry letters to the large California...more
On July 14, 2023, the office of the California attorney general announced an investigative sweep of “large California employers” to request “information on the companies’ compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act...more
The bulk of the “Law 25” amendments to Québec’s Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector (“PPIPS”) take effect on September 22, 2023. In a previous post, we discussed the internal policies...more
On February 14, 2023, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) submitted its proposed final regulations (“Regulations”) to the Office of Administrative Law for a final review. It is anticipated that Regulations will go...more
Following the passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), for the past two years, employers have been partially exempt from many of the California Consumer Privacy Act's (CCPA) mandates pertaining to applicants,...more
Since the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) was passed in 2018, employers have been watching carefully to see how the law will apply to data collected and maintained about their employees. Up until now, employment data...more
In a few months, certain businesses with California-based employees may face new data privacy requirements as an exemption to the Golden State’s comprehensive privacy and security statute sunsets. In recent years,...more
The Employee Data Exemptions that existed in the original CCPA will no longer be effective in 2023 as the scope of the data protection law expands under the CPRA. In November 2020, California residents voted to adopt the...more
To date, employee data has been largely exempt from the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). However, effective January 1, 2023, the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), will remove the...more
This is the fourth in a series of articles about the implications of the California Privacy Rights Act for employers. The impending January 1, 2023 effective date of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) has created a...more
In Part 1 of BakerHostetler’s Countdown to CPRA blog series, we provided initial guidance to businesses on key California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) compliance readiness considerations. On January 1, 2023, California could...more
Governor Newsom just signed legislation that will extend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) exemption for employee, job applicant, and independent contractor data for an additional year – until January 1, 2022....more
The California Legislature has delayed its plans to expand the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and make all of its provisions apply to personal information related to business-to-business communications...more
California’s landmark privacy law could soon be amended with updated compliance burdens for employers – and it will be up to voters statewide to determine whether these changes take effect. An amendment to the California...more
Here are some key points for employers to keep in mind related to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which were included in my presentation to a recent meeting of Fox Rothschild’s Labor & Employment Practice Group. ...more
Some business leaders and HR professionals may be waking up this morning not realizing they must provide a “Notice at Collection” to some or all of their employees and applicants under the new California Consumer Privacy Act...more
Eight Weeks and Counting to the Deadline. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) becomes effective on Jan. 1, 2020. With the compliance deadline rapidly approaching, the finish line seems farther away than ever. In this...more
Yes. The sections of the CCPA that relate to data privacy (i.e., the collection, use, and sharing of information) use a definition of “personal information” that includes approximately 26 categories or types of data. That...more
On September 13, 2019, the California legislature brought much-anticipated clarity and focus to the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) with the passing of five amendments—including Assembly Bill 25...more
It looks like the back-and-forth about how much employee information will be covered under the California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, is likely resolved, at least for now. The California legislature recently passed AB 25,...more