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Unearthing competitive intelligence through Freedom of Information Act requests

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2011

Competitors can learn of your trade secrets in any one of a number of ways, perhaps the most common of which is the sticky fingers of departing and disloyal employees

U.S. Supreme Court grants petition for certiorari in Quon v. Arch Wireless case involving employee communications claim under Stored Communications Act

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 14 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition for certiorari filed by the employer in a case involving the privacy of employee communications under the Stored Communications Act provisions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Washington report

  • Williams Mullen
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 10 2012

This report is designed to provide employees and clients with a summary of anticipated significant Congressional action in 2012

There's no sense waiting to see what the U.S. Supreme Court has to say about GPS tracking

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 5 2012

That appears to be the opinion of Magistrate Judge David Noce in United States v. Robinson, No. 4:11-cr-00361 (D. Mo. Dec. 27, 2011), who ruled that GPS tracking of a public official suspected of having a no-show municipal job did not require a warrant

Second Circuit reverses convictions in data-theft prosecution and narrowly interprets federal criminal statutes with important intellectual property implications

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 21 2012

In February 2012, following oral argument, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a brief order reversing Sergey Aleynikov’s convictions for violating the National Stolen Property Act, 18 U.S.C. 2314 (“NSPA”), and the Economic Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. 1832(b) (“EEA”), and stating a longer opinion would follow

Employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in work computers: Supreme Court of Canada

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 22 2012

In R. v. Cole, 2012 SCC 53 (October 19, 2012), the Supreme Court of Canada held that employees may reasonably expect privacy in the information stored on their work-issued computers at least where personal use is permitted or reasonably expected

Canada's highest court rules on employee privacy rights over work computer

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 23 2012

In R. v. Cole, 2012 SCC 53, the Supreme Court of Canada held that a warrantless search and seizure by police of a teacher’s employerissued computer containing sexually explicit images of a female student were in violation of the teacher’s rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Ombudsmen decisions - The Hobbit and Ministers' personal interests

  • Russell McVeagh
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  • New Zealand
  • -
  • February 8 2013

In the past week the Ombudsmen released two opinions concerning high-profile requests under the Official Information Act. The two situations differ

Company computers and the employee's expectation of privacy - do your employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy over their computer data?

  • Lawson Lundell LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 29 2011

In R. v. Cole, 2011 ONCA 218 "Cole" a high school teacher obtained pornographic pictures of a grade 10 student via the school network

Michigan becomes latest state to enact social media privacy law

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2013

Last week, Michigan enacted a social media privacy law that prohibits employers and educational institutions from requesting access to the personal social