J. Justin Wilson writes: Today, an Oakland small business owner and activist partnered with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to sue U.S. Postal Service (USPS) officials for illegally stopping, seizing and searching a set of four ordinary boxes containing thousands of Covid-19 face masks bearing political messages in June 2020. The masks belonged to René…
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SCOTUS Leak investigation Sparks Privacy Concerns, Advice to Lawyer Up
Brad Kutner reports: Lawyers and former clerks are opening up about the options available for, and the consequences associated with, cooperating with the investigation into the April leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would topple the constitutional right to abortion. […] A request for comment on the U.S. Supreme Court’s employment cell…
Schools urge end to forced disclosure of private student information; state using data to track vaccinations
Sherrie Peif reports: More than 20 charter schools across the state recently presented a petition to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) requesting that it stop collecting and using private information of school children to publicize youth vaccination rates on its website. Diana Herrero, deputy director of the division of disease control…
California Assembly Proposes Data Privacy Law for Workers
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog: Assembly Bill 1651, or the Workplace Technology Accountability Act, a new bill proposed by California Assembly Member Ash Kalra, would regulate employers and their vendors regarding the use of employee data. Under the bill, data is defined as “any information that identifies,…