Carol A.F. Umhoefer and Alaa Salaheldin of DLA Piper write: Global companies face increased pressure to adopt strong cyber risk mitigation measures in today’s rapidly evolving cyber threat-heavy business environment. According to security company PurpleSec LLC, in 2020 alone, cybercrime is reported to have increased by up to 600% as a result of new incentives…
Category: Workplace
Uber, Lyft to share data on drivers banned for sexual, physical assault
One of the things that has always been an issue is that sex offenders may move from job to job without former employers ever being able to warn others due to privacy laws that protect employees’ privacy. So it was a bit of a pleasant surprise to read that Uber and Lyft will share data…
Maryland Joins New York with a BIPA-like Biometric Privacy Bill
Joseph Lazzarotti writes: On January 13, House Delegate Sara Love Introduced the “Biometric Identifiers and Biometric Information Privacy Act” (the “Act”) substantially modeled after the Biometric Information Privacy Act in Illinois, 740 ILCS 14 et seq. (the “BIPA”). Enacted in 2008, the Illinois BIPA only recently triggered an avalanche of class actions in Illinois, spurring other legislative…
IT: Supervisor, no to the use of fingerprints of employees if there is no legislative basis
Marco De Felice (@amvinfe) recently pointed me to the web site for the Italian data protection regulator (“the Guarantor”), so now you may be seeing more Italian privacy-related news on this site, too. For starters, there was a ruling on an employment-related case announced this week. The Provincial Health Authority (Asp) of Enna was fined…