Marc C. Lombardi of Shipman & Goodman writes: As employers explore new ways to store and process biometric employee information, a new decision by the Illinois Supreme Court should cause them to exercise extreme caution when doing so. The case, Cothron v. White Castle, relates to a federal class action law suit raising issues under the…
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Acting Pennsylvania Attorney General Henry Secures $400,000 Settlement with DNA Diagnostics Center Stemming from Data Breach
HARRISBURG – Acting Attorney General Michelle A. Henry today announced a settlement with DNA Diagnostics Center – one of the world’s largest private DNA-testing companies offering diagnostic and genetic testing to help answer relationship, fertility, and health questions – after a data breach exposed the social security numbers of 12,663 Pennsylvanians who were subject to genetic testing…
EmergencyMD Must Face Revived Suit Over Contractor’s Emails
Christopher Brown reports: EmergencyMD LLC must face a revived lawsuit from a former contractor alleging the company illegally accessed her private emails for use in litigation between it and her new employer, a federal appellate court ruled. Because there were genuine issues of material fact related to her claim that EmergencyMD violated the Stored Communications…
Jury awards $300,000 to retired trooper who sued state police for retaliation
Matt Byrne reports: A federal jury has found that Maine State Police supervisors retaliated against a detective who refused to break federal disclosure rules and tried to report what he believed was illegal data collection by a secretive state police intelligence unit. The jury of six men and three women deliberated for more than five…