Micaela McMurrough, Libbie Canter, and Teresa Lewi of Covington & Burling write: On November 8, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a new electronic monitoring law (S2628) requiring New York businesses that monitor or intercept employees’ e-mails, telephone calls, or internet usage to notify employees in writing of these practices. The new law amends…
Category: Laws
Beware ‘anti-trolling’ legislation that is just another attempt to increase surveillance and strip you of privacy and free speech
The Age reports: The federal government has proposed new laws to unmask anonymous online trolls and to make social media companies that publish the defamatory posts of third parties liable. Under the new regime, a social media company would be legally responsible for defamatory posts unless they revealed to the victim the identity of the trolls. Companies…
Privacy and Reputational Harm – Jeevan Hariharan
Jeevan Hariharan writes: Next week, on 30 November and 1 December 2021, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in ZXC v Bloomberg LP. The case gives the court an opportunity to answer one of the most important questions which has emerged in English privacy law in recent years: does a person who has not been…
Overview of Legislations on Cybersecurity, Personal Data Protection and Computer Misuse
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) had collaborated with the PDPC and Singapore Police Force (SPF) to develop a handbook covering an overview of the Cybersecurity Act, Computer Misuse Act and Personal Data Protection Act. The handbook explains the three different legislations and how they work in tandem, illustrated through examples of data breaches….