Companies considering whether to suggest, or even to require, contact tracing for employees or others must consider a host of legal issues, including privacy. This article describes contact tracing, focusing on how technology has made it a more powerful weapon against viruses and diseases than ever before.
Users have become increasingly concerned about the privacy of videoconferencing platforms, due to exposure of information from security breaches. We examined the privacy policies of six prominent applications to determine their compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
A deep dive into the pre and post pandemic e-discovery job market landscape and what data privacy professionals can learn from ESI employment trends. Part Two of a Two-Part Article
America and the EU Continue Altering Data Privacy Frameworks for Businesses A close look at a couple of privacy-related issuances from California, along with the European Court of Justice ruling invalidating the EU-U.S. privacy shield.
It's pretty shameful that in the current crisis we're seeing ransomware on the rise. It's even more shameful that organizations involved in fighting the virus seem to be especially at risk.
Facebook filed two separate lawsuits in the UK and U.S. that the company says is part of an ongoing effort to hold developers that abuse its platform accountable.
Part One of a Two-Part Article This deep dive into the specific cause-and-effect paradigms impacting the data privacy and e-discovery verticals illustrates broader trends in the overall legal technology job market while simultaneously giving professionals in (or eager to be in) those disciplines a clear roadmap of where the legal technology, data privacy, and ESI job market was, is today, and where it will be in the future.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses scrambled to rapidly deploy a remote workforce which created new challenges for businesses to continue operating and providing critical services. It also created an opportunity for malicious actors to hack into and gain access to IT systems and sensitive, personal information.
COVID-19 Contact Tracing v. Protecting Personal Privacy As states roll back stay-at-home orders, contact tracing has quickly emerged as an essential tool to manage the spread of the coronavirus and allow the country to return to work safely. But innovative contact tracing methods raise a host of privacy concerns, forcing a reckoning with how we balance privacy and public health.
The biggest challenge with any legal hold process is ensuring that potentially relevant data is actually preserved. But with evolving requirements for how data is managed by new data privacy laws like the CCPA and the GDPR, it's become harder to secure data by simply sending a legal hold and assuming the custodian will do their duty to preserve it.
