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On March 23, Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan warned its users in a blog post “to keep their password to themselves, and Facebook will do its best to protect that right.”
On Friday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a final rule which mandates that employers retain workplace records so that the agency is able to ensure compliance with the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act’s (GINA) prohibition of employment discrimination based on a worker’s genetic information
In Pulte Homes, Inc. v. Laborers’ International Union of North America, Nos. 09-2245; 10-1673 (6th Cir. August 2, 2011), the Sixth Circuit reversed in part the district court’s dismissal of Pulte’s Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims and, in the process, further elucidated the “independent-federal-exception” to Garmon preemption over conduct “arguably subject” to section 7 or 8 of the National Labor Relations Act
On June 17, 2010, the US Supreme Court released City of Ontario v. Quon, in which the Court (in a unanimous decision, with Justice Scalia concurring) reversed the Ninth Circuit’s decision and held that a government employer’s search of employee text messages was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment
On December 16, 2007, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its much-anticipated decision in Guard Publishing Co., 351 N.L.R.B. No. 70 (2007
