FourthAmendment.com highlights a court opinion out of Massachusetts: Defendant is charged with accessing and taking his employer’s information for the purpose of setting up a rival company doing the same thing. His motion to suppress the information is denied because he has no reasonable expectation of privacy in it. United States v. Yu, 2020 U.S….
Category: Workplace
H&M Fined €35m in Germany for GDPR Breaches Related to Staff Record Keeping
Compliance Junction reports: In Germany the data protection authority located in Hamburg has announced that H&M, the second biggest retailer in the world, is being fined €35.2 (US $41.3m) for breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in relation to the monitoring of several hundred staff member by a German subsidiary. The data protection…
Should your company know who you’re dating *outside* work?
Graham Cluley writes: The Coronavirus pandemic has pretty much killed off office romances, and the chances of a snog in the stationery cupboard, but now at least one firm might be pooping over romance outside of the workplace as well. BBC News reports that BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management firm, has told all of its 16,000…
California Leads the Way for Pay Data Collection and Reporting
Lynne Anne Anderson, Kristin Jones Pierre, and Alexa E. Miller of Faegre Drinker write: With the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) announcement that it would abandon current efforts to collect the controversial Component 2 pay data, California has taken the first step in filling the void left behind by seeking to enact a state law requirement to…