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Employer’s access of employee’s cell phone did not violate the Stored Communications Act

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2013

The Fifth Circuit held that an employee's cell phone was not covered under the Stored Communications Act and therefore her employer did not violate the

Germany issues fines for unlawfully collecting employees’ health information

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • March 16 2010

The German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, through its data protection authority, has fined a large drugstore chain for collecting and retaining employees' health information in violation of Germany's data protection law

Former employer can send documents to home computer

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 18 2009

LVRC Holdings, LLC (“LVRC”) sued its former employee, Christopher Brekka, and his consulting business, Employee Business Solutions, Inc. (“EBSN”), alleging that Brekka violated the Consumer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) by accessing LVRC’s computer without authorization during and after Brekka was employed at LVRC

Company liable for improperly accessing e-mails, but no individual liability

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 21 2010

A federal district court held that certain individuals who read printouts of an employee's personal e-mail that had been improperly accessed could not be held individually liable for violations of the Stored Communications Act ("SCA"), while the suit could proceed against the company, an affiliated company, and the company's president who had accessed the e-mails

Expectation of privacy in personal e-mails stored on company computers

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 21 2010

A recent decision by the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that an employee could reasonably expect privacy in her e-mails stored on her employer's electronic resources when the e-mails involved attorney-client communication

MA regulation regarding collection of SSN and credit card numbers goes into effect March 1

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 4 2010

Massachusetts will have a new data security regulation that goes into effect on March 1 of this year

Search of text messages on city-issued pagers found acceptable

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 23 2010

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled this summer that a city's search of an employee's text messages on city-issued pagers was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment

Employee’s e-mails to her attorney on company computer not privileged

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 31 2011

In a recent case from the California Appellate Court, the court determined that an employee who sent e-mails to her attorney on a company-provided computer had waived any attorney-client privilege as to the e-mails

Including executive compensation information on your corporate web site

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2011

I encourage readers to take a look at the suggestion and examples in this article, "Communicating executive pay information on the web," by Dominic Jones, on the IR Web Report

Employees sue for use of their SSNs in IDs

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 31 2011

In February 2011, employees at a large amusement park filed a putative class action alleging that the company violated California state law by encoding employees' Social Security numbers on the employees' worker identification cards in such a way that the information could be read using a common barcode scanner

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