Keeping your eyes on the road – are there limits to a UK employer’s...
How would you feel about your employer knowing where you are 24 hours a day? News reaches us of a claim by an employee dismissed in the US for deleting a smartphone app Xora which her management had...
View ArticleIcing on the cake for Facebook privacy laws & the impact on your workplace
While Facebook continues to produce evidentiary gold for employers seeking to prove employee wrongdoing, a recent New Zealand case demonstrates that privacy settings can’t be ignored. In a recent...
View ArticleSpying on an employee in France breaches his right to privacy, even where he...
The French Supreme Court recently ruled that an employer could not rely on the report of a private detective it had hired to spy on one of its employees to obtain an injunction against him because this...
View ArticleThe hidden catches in catching ‘em all for Hong Kong employers
With the new Pokémon Go app taking the world by storm, people all over Hong Kong are glued to their screens, zealously catching the little creatures we have loved since its creation in 1995. Numerous...
View ArticleKeeping an eye on international employee data privacy compliance
I first became interested in employee privacy and monitoring many many years ago. A client received a complaint from an employee who had just discovered that his brief interlude having sex with a...
View ArticlePractical Guidance on the GDPR – Part 3
This is the next in our series of posts on questions raised at our recent GDPR webinar. If you have any views or further queries in these areas, please do get in touch. What impact will the GDPR have...
View ArticlePractical Guidance on the GDPR – Part 4
Here are answers to two more questions arising from next year’s GDPR, this time on website recruitment and data breach notification. More to follow in this series soon. We have a contact form section...
View ArticlePractical guidance on the GDPR – Part 5
In response to our invitation to contact us with GDPR enquiries, one kind reader has bowled us this particular googlie: Most people in business will have accumulated large contact lists in Outlook...
View ArticleCalifornia Latest State to Adopt No-Ask Law
On October 12, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a salary privacy law prohibiting California employers from seeking or relying on salary history information, including compensation and...
View ArticleIllinois Employers Face A Recent Rash of Class Action Lawsuits Filed Under...
Illinois enacted its Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) in 2008 to regulate, among other things, employer collection and use of employee biometric information. Biometrics is defined as the...
View ArticlePractical Guide to the GDPR – Part 6
With apologies for the interruption to this series, here are two further reader questions on the GDPR as it will apply to employers in the UK. I have heard that my corporate email address is my...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Claims Put Non-Disclosure and Arbitration Agreements Under...
In the current climate where sexual assault and harassment allegations against Hollywood elite, Congressmen and news anchors have triggered a wave of “me too” allegations, several tools commonly used...
View ArticleECHR gives University stern lecture on reach of employees’ private lives into...
It all began as an everyday tale of Montenegrin academics and some animals, and ended up in a European Court of Human Rights decision with potentially significant consequences for employers across the...
View ArticlePractical Guidance on the GDPR – Part 7
A client put this to us the other day – assuming that a photo or video footage of a current or former employee counts as his personal data, which it does, how far will his GDPR “right to be forgotten”...
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What’s Your Number? Be Careful When Asking Your Japanese Employees.
In many countries, individuals are identified by a unique number issued by the government. Probably the most ubiquitous example is the Social Security Number in the United States, which is generally...
View ArticleEmployee Data Subject Access Requests in the UK: Part 4 – how to deal with...
In part 1 of this blog series, we asked how employers facing a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) should be dealing with ‘mixed data’ cases, i.e. when a third party’s personal data is intertwined with...
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Employee Data Subject Access Requests: Part 1 – where are we now and what...
Just when we thought we were getting to grips with some of the stickier issues around Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), then along comes the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and...
View ArticleEmployee Data Subject Access Requests: Part 2 – It’s complicated – extending...
In the second of our five part blog series on Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), we examine the notion of “complexity” and how that might affect the way you respond as an employer to a DSAR. What is...
View ArticleEmployee Data Subject Access Requests: Part 3 – DSARs and proportionality –...
Some DSARs can be wonderfully straightforward: “Can I have a copy of my personnel file?” “Absolutely, here you go” “Can I have a copy of the notes from my appeal hearing?” “Of course, all yours. Any...
View ArticleWhen employee consent is the start of the problem, not the end – the GDPR...
The Greek Data Protection Authority has imposed a 150,000 EUR fine on PriceWaterhouseCoopers Business Solutions SA for – get this – asking their employees’ consent to process their personal data. It...
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