Andrea Vittorio reports: White Castle System Inc. can’t beat claims that it invaded workers’ privacy by collecting and sharing fingerprint data without consent, an Illinois federal district court ruled. The burger chain had tried to toss the lawsuit for lack of timeliness, because the alleged violations of the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act began in…
Category: Workplace
Transferring Employee Data after EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Invalidated
Joseph J. Lazzarotti and Mary T. Costigan of JacksonLewis write: Businesses are now prohibited from transferring employee personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the U.S. under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield program. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield invalid in Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook…
Employees Hit Manufacturer With Ill. Finger Scan Privacy Suit
I don’t have a subscription to be able to read the whole story, but if you have access to Law360, they report an employment related lawsuit against Iko Midwest Inc. for allegedly requiring its 3000 employees to use fingerprint scanning to track work time without first obtaining their consent.
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal absolves university of infringing on employee’s privacy
Andrew Sutherland and Gordon Hughes of Davies Collison Cave provide a round-up of some cases in Australia. On 28 April 2020, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled that a university had not infringed the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic) when it collected images with sexual content from an employee’s computer, resulting in a disciplinary…