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District Court finds way around 9th Circuit’s limit on CFAA liability
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- USA
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- March 30 2013
A federal district court in California has added another twist to the long-running saga of U.S. v. Nosal, holding that former employees could be
Whose law governs communication intercepts?
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- USA
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- January 26 2013
The law governing the interception of customer or employee communications is only getting more muddled. Not only do different states have different
Michigan bans nosy employers
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- USA
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- January 12 2013
Last month, Michigan enacted Public Act 478 of 2012 to become the latest state to bar employers and educational institutions from requiring, or even
Court orders claimants to produce passwords in civil lawsuit
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- USA
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- December 1 2012
A federal magistrate in Colorado, in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) v. The Original Honeybaked Ham Company of Georgia, Inc., has ordered the claimants in an employment discrimination suit to provide a special master with their social media and email passwords so that the master could gather discoverable information from their social media and email accounts
Canada extends privacy protection to work-issued equipment
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- Canada
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- November 3 2012
The Supreme Court of Canada has held, in The Queen v. Cole, that employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in personal information contained on a work-issued computer when personal use of that computer is permitted or reasonably expected, even if the employer’s policy warns that they have no privacy
When in France, don’t tie yourself up
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- France
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- October 6 2012
French companies looking to monitor their employees’ communications should make sure they haven’t unwittingly restricted themselves more than the law requires
Fourth Circuit holds that violation of computer use policy does not give rise to CFFA claim
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- USA
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- August 11 2012
The Fourth Circuit has joined the Ninth (in U.S. v. Nosal) in holding that a company cannot bring a claim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) against an employee who downloaded company information and then used it to aid the company’s competitor
Denmark approves use of microsoft cloud service
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- Denmark
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- August 11 2012
Denmark has approved a Danish institution’s request to use a U.S.-based cloud computing solution for the processing of its employees’ personal data
France continues to limit workplace privacy protections
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- France
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- May 26 2012
France’s highest appeals court has again narrowed the scope of employees’ privacy rights in the workplace
French court narrows the scope of workplace privacy
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- France
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- May 19 2012
The Bordeaux Court of Appeals in France has ruled, in Pierre B. v. Epsilon Composite, that a company was justified in reviewing emails sent by an employee using a workplace computer, since the employee had not identified the messages as personal
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