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NLRB’s Newest Report Scrutinizes Social Media Policies and Provides a Sample...
Acknowledging that “(e)mployee use of social media as it relates to the workplace continues to increase, raising various concerns by employers,” on May 30 the National Labor Relations Board Acting...
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What the States Did on Their “Summer Vacation”: Enact New Privacy Laws
This summer, several states enacted legislation addressing a broad range of privacy issues including data breach notification, health care privacy, employer access to employees’ and applicants’...
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California Moves to Protect Privacy of Social Media Accounts
California has become the latest state to pass a law prohibiting employers from requesting access to employees’ and job applicants’ social media information or accounts. Under AB 1844, which was...
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Michigan Becomes Latest State to Enact Social Media Privacy Law
Last week, Michigan enacted a social media privacy law that prohibits employers and educational institutions from requesting access to the personal social media or other internet-based accounts of...
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New German Act on Employee Data Privacy Likely
Tim Wybitul, who is Of Counsel at Hogan Lovells in Frankfurt, provides this analysis of forthcoming German legislation on employee privacy. James Denvil, an associate in our Washington office,...
View ArticleThe Spanish Constitutional Court Backs the Possibility of Accessing Private...
The Spanish Constitutional Court has ruled against two company employees who claimed an infringement of their privacy right and their right to secrecy of communications, in a recent judgement from 17...
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French Court Limits the Scope of Employee Data Protection
In a previous post back in 2010, we discussed a then-new data-privacy case decided by the French Cour de Casson (high court), called Bruno B v. Giraud et Migot, Cour de Cassation [Cass.], soc., Paris,...
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Disclosure of Employment Equality Data “Necessary” Under UK Data Protection Act
A Scottish council has been required to provide data indicating whether it pays traditionally “male” jobs more than traditionally “female” roles, after the Supreme Court rejected its argument that Data...
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UK Council Successfully Appeals ICO Fine Arising from Processor Breach
The UK First Tier Tribunal issued a decision on August 21 that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) was wrong to impose a £250,000 fine on Scottish Borders Council in relation to an incident...
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Insights on the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2015
On Friday, February 27, the White House released its promised draft privacy and data security legislation. The proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2015 (the “Act”) contains few, if any,...
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The European Court of Human Rights Decides that Accessing an Employee’s Work...
To what extent are the personal communications sent by an employee from their employer’s computer private? In Europe it has been accepted for some years that employees do not lose their right to...
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New Case Law on Restrictions for Employee Monitoring in the Workplace in Germany
According to the German Federal Labor Court, Germany’s highest court for employment disputes, German employers are not allowed to monitor employees in the workplace without a concrete suspicion of a...
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European Court Proposes Criteria for Assessing Employee Monitoring Activities
On September 5, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a ruling in the case of Bărbulescu v. Romania that affirms employees’ right to privacy in the use of communications tools in the...
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Managing Workforce Cyber Risk in a Global Landscape: A Legal Review
Whether malicious or inadvertent, workforce actions cause or contribute to over half of cyber attacks experienced by organizations. Protecting against such “insider” cyber risks can be challenging,...
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California Consumer Privacy Act: The Challenge Ahead – CCPA and Employee Data
This is the seventh installment in Hogan Lovells’ series on the California Consumer Privacy Act. The application of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) to employee data has been the...
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Data Privacy Considerations for Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
Hogan Lovells partner Bret Cohen recently participated in the webinar “HR Data Privacy – Protecting Privacy in Global Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives,” hosted by BrightTALK. In this webinar, Bret...
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Return to Workplace U.S. Memorandum for Employers
As companies in the United States work to re-open physical workplaces, they must navigate an array of federal, state, and local laws that relate to employees, including requirements to keep workplaces...
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