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 [Read More…]
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.
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 [Read More…]
Ryan Kessler reports: A survey sent to 900 Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) members allowed teachers to breach the privacy of potentially thousands of students, according to the province’s privacy commissioner. […] The survey asked teachers to score students on a scale of zero to four in 16 areas, which included [Read More…]