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Google Latitude launch creates potential employee privacy issues

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 9 2009

On Wednesday, February 4, 2009, Google launched a new feature called Latitude

Facebook announces new privacy controls

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • December 9 2009

Facebook has announced that it is implementing new privacy controls beginning today that will give its more than 350 million users more control over the privacy of what they post to their Facebook pages

New Jersey case further muddies water on personal email access and privilege issues

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 10 2009

May an employer access an employee's emails sent using a company-issued laptop via a personal, password-protected, web-based email account?

Data breach case highlights importance of vendor management

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 22 2009

The Ruiz v. Gap, Inc. et al. decision, rendered earlier this week by a federal court in California, is another in a long series of cases that dismisses lawsuits brought by data-breach victims when those victims cannot establish that they were actual identity theft victims with actual damages

Watch what you say in your $& emails

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 2 2010

It may be that it's Monday morning as I write this but I have to admit I got a kick out of the news articles circulating late last week that reported that Goldman Sachs has revised its electronic communications policy to prohibit the use of any profanity in emails

Massachusetts data security law goes into effect

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2010

A new Massachusetts data security law the "Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth" has gone into effect as of March 1, 2010

HHS publishes HITECH interim final rule

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 26 2009

On August 24, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") published its interim final rule in the Federal Register, thereby implementing the HITECH Act

Recent terminations highlight need for health care employers to focus on employee education regarding social media

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 24 2010

We are starting to see an increase in the number of news articles reporting on health care facilities terminating employees for violating patient privacy on their facebook pages or other social media

Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of government background screens in NASA v. Nelson

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court today issued its decision in NASA v. Nelson, a case that we previewed back in October

NLRB's Office of General Counsel issues new advice memorandum on social media

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 12 2011

The NLRB's General Counsel's Office's approach to employer social media policies and the discipline of employees pursuant to such policies has been a frequent topic of this blog