The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 16: Protecting Privacy at Every Walk of Life with France Bélanger and Donna Wertalik of Virginia Tech
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 11: Signal and Noise: The New Administration, Privacy, and Our Digital Rights with Cindy Cohn of Electronic Frontier Foundation
Law Brief®: Rich Schoenstein and Joshua Ritter Discuss Cameras in the Courts
Webinar Recording – Assessing the Surge in Wiretap Litigation
1984 in the Workplace — Is Employee Surveillance Trending?
Workers' Compensation Academy: 2020: A Unique Year in Many Ways Including Changes in New Jersey Workers’ Compensation
Workers' Compensation Academy: The Smoking Gun: Importance of Investigation in Insurance & Workers’ Compensation
I’ll be watching you: The ins and outs of employee monitoring
Is Edward Snowden a Whistleblower?
Join Weber Gallagher Partners Jeffrey Newby, Jennifer Laver, and John Kutner for an insightful webinar that provides a deeper look into New Jersey Workers’ Compensation. Whether you’re handling routine claims or navigating...more
This week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) reviewed a lower court’s dismissal of gun-related indictments against Richard Dilworth, Jr., related to the state’s refusal to disclose the bitmojis and usernames it...more
What U.K. Firms Need to Know - INTRODUCTION - Over the past decade, the use of messaging applications, such as WhatsApp, for business purposes as an alternative to traditional email has grown exponentially. Ease of use...more
Last year, the FTC announced they were going to “crackdown on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security,” and have been pursuing a number of lawsuits as a result. Many of these are bold in their approach, which...more
On October 31, 2022, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum advocating for adoption of a new framework for policing employer use of electronic monitoring and automated...more
Seven North Carolina Colleges Secretly Tracked Social Media Posts of Students, Protesters "A new report shows seven North Carolina universities monitored social media platforms to keep an eye on things like protests or...more
An Internet privacy watchdog organization filed a lawsuit recently in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the United States Postal Service. In Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”)...more
Investigation can be a crucial part of any workers’ compensation case. Weber Gallagher associates, Vanessa Mendelewski and Scott Wilson explain why wage and rate, medical records, personnel files, and an ISO search are...more
This past weekend saw a halt to the anticipated September 20 implementation of broad prohibitions published on September 18 by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) regarding TikTok and WeChat mobile applications. No...more
On September 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued two orders identifying the specific transactions related to the WeChat and TikTok mobile applications ("Orders") that are prohibited pursuant to Executive Orders...more
As the countdown continues to September 20, our International Trade & Regulatory Group examines the ambiguities underlying the unprecedented Executive Orders purporting to ban the use of TikTok and WeChat, questions that may...more
On 4 September 2019 the U.S. State Department issued "Draft 'U.S. Government Guidance for the Export of Hardware, Software and Technology with Surveillance Capabilities and/or parts/know-how'" (draft guidance). ...more
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
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
Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram recently updated their privacy policies to protect users from social media surveillance. These updates could lead an industry-wide trend in restricting third-party sales of user data....more
Earlier this month, the ACLU published a report alleging that it had obtained public records showing that social media user data such as location tracking, photos and hashtag usage may have been used by law enforcement to...more
I. OVERVIEW – THE MODERN LANDSCAPE - A. Physical Conduct PLUS Digital Activity - Traditional concerns for employers have included: conduct leading to liability to third-parties; “frolic and detour” or other...more
It is well-established that the NLRB has been aggressively litigating cases involving social media policies and employees terminated for making disparaging comments online. Recently, however, the NLRB has expanded its reach...more