While insider wrong-doing (snooping) breaches get covered on DataBreaches.net, such breaches may be a workplace privacy issue. Joseph Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: As we noted in late January 2020, the spread of infectious disease raises particular concerns for healthcare workers who want to do their jobs and care for their patients, while also protect themselves and their…
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Autonomous Vehicles Will Automatically Stop For Police, Roll Down Their Windows And Unlock Their Doors
Joe Cadillic writes: The National Institute of Justice, the RAND Corporation and the Police Executive Research Forum want to give law enforcement real-time access to autonomous vehicles. Last month, this so-called expert panel identified 17 high-priority law enforcement needs for autonomous vehicles. And as you can imagine some of them are very disturbing. Read more on MassPrivateI.
Law Firm Wins Fired Lawyer’s Suit Over Analyzing Cell Phone Data
Brian Flood reports: The law firm Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle didn’t violate the Stored Communications Act by having data extracted from a fired attorney’s smart phone, because only the phone’s internal storage was accessed and copied, a federal court in Illinois said Thursday. ZRFM paid for attorney David Loughnane’s cell phone and its associated…
Beware BIPA Bifurcation: Plaintiffs’ New Gambit to Split BIPA Claims Between State and Federal Courts
David Poell, Kari Rollins, and Liisa Thomas of SheppardMullin write: The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has spawned hundreds of class action lawsuits and a raft of unresolved issues. A core issue from a litigation perspective—as well as for companies bracing for potential lawsuits—is one of “standing,” and in particular, what BIPA claims can…