Lauren Kaori Gurley and Joseph Cox report: Verkada, a fast-growing Silicon Valley surveillance startup, equips its offices in downtown San Mateo, California, with its own state-of-the-art security cameras. Last year, a sales director on the company’s sales team abused their access to these cameras to take and post photos of [Read More…]
Workplace privacy issues have taken center stage in the past year or so. Not only do we have the issues of employers protecting workplace health and safety during the pandemic without violating employees’ privacy in unacceptable ways, but the MeToo! movement that preceded the pandemic was already producing significant shifts [Read More…]
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Due to the importance of data protection law for employee monitoring practices, a careful and considered approach must be taken when potentially highly intrusive methods, such as tracking employee vehicles, are used. Employees must be informed of the existence of tracking and how it [Read More…]
Kristof Van Quathem of Covington & Burling writes: On September 30, 2020, the French Court of Cassation (“Court”) ruled in favor of an employer that dismissed an employee because of the contents of a Facebook post (the decision is available here, in French). In particular, the employee in this case posted [Read More…]