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NAAG 2025 Presidential Initiative Summit: Building on Opioid Litigation Success to Tackle Evolving Drug Threats

Cozen O'Connor on 8/19/2025

This year’s NAAG Presidential Initiative Summit held August 5-6, 2025 in Portsmouth, NH, was hosted by New Hampshire AG and NAAG President John Formella, brought together state AGs, law enforcement officials, federal...more

China Monthly Data Protection Update: May 2025

Dacheng on 5/29/2025

This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s data protection sector for May. The following events merit special attention...more

Alexa, What Do You Think of Florida’s New Data Privacy Act?

DarrowEverett LLP on 8/3/2023

Hot on the trail of the latest state privacy laws to come into effect, Florida has jumped on board to keep the momentum going. On June 6, 2023, Florida Senate Bill 262 (“SB 262,”) was signed into law, meaning a new set of...more

Florida Enjoined from Enforcing Law Targeting Some Social Media Platforms

Saiber LLC on 8/16/2021

Earlier this year, Florida enacted Senate Bill 7072 - The Stop Social Media Censorship Act - which imposed requirements and prohibitions on some, but not all, social media platforms relating to the speech hosted on their...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/22/2018

This week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report that outlined cyber incidents that nine public companies had experienced, causing fraudulent losses totaling more than $100 million. The...more

Top Developments/Headlines in Trade Secret, Computer Fraud, and Non-Compete Law in 2017

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/19/2018

Continuing our annual tradition, we present the top developments/headlines for 2017/2018 in trade secret, computer fraud, and non-compete law....more

Big Brother is Watching You: Feds Now Vetting Foreign Workers Via Social Media

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 12/6/2017

Employers may need to start “following” the information their foreign national workers share on Twitter or Facebook, as the Department of Homeland Security is turning social media into the federal government’s latest...more

New Maine Social Media Privacy Law Takes Effect October 15, 2015

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/12/2015

Maine has become the latest state to restrict employers’ ability to access social media accounts of employees and applicants. A new Maine statute, which will go into effect on October 15, 2015, prohibits a broad range of...more

Social Media Employee Privacy Laws – The New Majority Approach?

McGuireWoods LLP on 9/29/2015

As the old Bob Dylan song goes, “the times they are a-changin’.” While I suspect his message may have been intended for a more meaningful topic than social media employee privacy laws, his words do ring true. When Maryland...more

Accessing an Employee’s Social Media Account? A Patchwork of State Laws

Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/29/2015

The water cooler, it seems, is a thing of the past. Or at least the actual physical water cooler is. These days, many of the office conversations take place online. Employees air their grievances, connect with each other, and...more

Maine Enacts Social Media Protections for Applicants and Employees

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 8/18/2015

Effective as of October 15, 2015, employers in Maine will be restricted in their ability to access the personal social media accounts of applicants and employees. Specifically, under the new law, an employer may not...more

Maine joins the mainstream with new social media law

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/14/2015

Joining more than 20 other states, and many of its sister states in the Northeast, Maine has passed a social media law that prohibits employers from requiring employees or applicants to provide them with their social media...more

Delaware Adds to Growing Patchwork of Social Media Laws

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 8/11/2015

On August 7, Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed a law to prohibit employers from interfering with the personal social media accounts of their prospective and current employees. The new law, which also took effect on...more

Trendsetter or Outlier? Oregon Adds New Twist to Password Protection Laws

Littler on 6/18/2015

Since early 2012, 21 states have enacted some form of "password protection" law. Although these laws vary substantially by state, their common thread is the intention to restrict employers' ability to access content in...more

Connecticut Limits Employer Access to Employees’ Personal Online Accounts

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/9/2015

On May 19, 2015, Governor Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut signed Public Act No. 15-6, entitled “An Act Concerning Employee Online Privacy” (“Act”), which will prohibit employers in Connecticut from requiring access to their...more

Oregon social media law signed by Governor

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/5/2015

Yesterday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law a new social media law in Oregon, the first in the nation, that limits employers from requiring employees to have social media accounts for employment, and to require...more

New Connecticut Online Privacy Law Protects Prospective & Current Employees

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 5/27/2015

Last week, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed a law to protect prospective and current employees from employer interference with their “personal online accounts.” The new law, which will take effect on October 1,...more

Connecticut Becomes Newest State with Social Media Privacy Law

Robinson & Cole LLP on 5/26/2015

Connecticut Governor Daniel Malloy signed Connecticut’s new social media law on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 prohibiting employers from: (1) requesting or requiring that an employee or applicant provide the employer with a user...more

New Law Restricts Employer Access to Employee Social Media Accounts, Including Through “Friend Requests”

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/22/2015

On March 23, 2015, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed a new law, H.B. 2081, that restricts the ability of employers in Virginia to access the social media accounts of current and prospective employees—making Virginia...more

Employers beware: Montana and Virginia are the newest states to limit employers’ access to personal social media accounts bringing...

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/20/2015

On April 8, the Montana legislature sent its new social media law to the Governor for signature and on March 23, Virginia passed legislation prohibiting an employer from requiring, requesting, or causing a current or...more

Tennessee’s New Social Media Law Gives Employers Dos and Don’ts Regarding Employee Privacy

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/6/2015

All Tennessee employers and their agents must now comply with the “Employee Online Privacy Act of 2014,” a new law that prohibits employers from asking their employees for their usernames and passwords to social media sites,...more

Alert: New California Privacy Law for Minors Has Taken Effect as of January 2015

Cooley LLP on 1/6/2015

California S.B. 568, titled "Privacy Rights for California Minors in the Digital World," (the "Privacy Law") took effect January 1, 2015. The new Privacy Law includes a provision known as the "Eraser Law" that gives...more

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