Christie Smythe reports: Lyft Inc. drivers will be permitted to revise a lawsuit alleging Uber Technologies Inc. spied on them using a software called “Hell” as part of a scheme to gain a competitive edge. A San Francisco federal magistrate judge dismissed most of the lawsuit Wednesday, but allowed the [Read More…]
Gert-Jan Fraeyman and Peter Craddock of DLA Piper write: On 22 February 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided a case concerning the alleged violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) in the context of controlling an employee’s personal files stored on [Read More…]
Jessica Forbes Olson of Fox Rothschild writes: Many employers who have had it drilled into them that HIPAA applies to protected health information (PHI) of employees are often surprised to learn that the applicability of HIPAA to employee health information (EHI) is actually quite narrow. HIPAA only applies to EHI [Read More…]
Erica Yen writes: As noted in our post last month, the fact that HIPAA does not provide for a private right of action has not stopped some state courts from allowing negligence claims using HIPAA to define a standard of care. That post discussed the Connecticut Supreme Court’s questionable creation [Read More…]