As employers explore new ways to store and process biometric employee information, a new decision by the Illinois Supreme Court should cause them to exercise extreme caution when doing so.
The case, Cothron v. White Castle, relates to a federal class action law suit raising issues under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”).
Join us once again for our annual public sector virtual seminar! On May 5th we will host a two-hour virtual program featuring a general session and four roundtable breakouts on timely legal topics of interest to public sector employers.
We invite you to register for our General Session and the Roundtable Breakout Session of
As data breaches become a fact of life for both businesses and consumers, barely a news cycle goes by without a story of another successful hack, ransomware, theft of personal data or other data breach. These data breaches are occurring in an environment in which cyber criminals continue to evolve their methods and increase the
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) first released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule on December 10, 2020. OCR extended the deadline for public comment to the NPRM to May 6, 2021 and recently released those
This week marked a turning point in the COVID-19 Pandemic: the arrival of the first vaccines. Now that the vaccines are finally coming (through much of 2021), employers have many questions to ask themselves and will have many questions to answer from employees. On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission started to
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued new guidance to inform businesses and organizations of the growing use of COVID-19-related themes by malicious cyber actors. Taking advantage of the global emergency and the rapid transition to telework arrangements, cybercriminals are targeting individuals, small and
With the increase in remote work during this COVID-19 outbreak, many organizations are vulnerable to new data privacy and cybersecurity risks. Now more than ever, even a minor incident can be devastating to a business. For organizations, we have prepared a Best Practices Checklist with recommended next steps to help your organization manage the risks
Please join Shipman & Goodwin attorneys Bill Roberts and Alfredo Fernández for this complimentary CLE webinar which will discuss the unique threats presented by personnel with legitimate access to controlled company information and how to proactively mitigate risks of data misuse. Topics to include:
When a data breach occurs at a company, not only is customer data vulnerable but so is employee information. But what obligations do employers owe their employees?
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