Last week, California Attorney General, Kamala D. Harris – who has been mentioned as a potential nominee to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s recently vacated seat on the U.S. Supreme Court – issued the California Data Breach Report (Report). The Report provides an analysis of the data breaches reported to the California AG from 2012-2015.
Privacy
Public Employer Required To Provide Union With Addresses and Phone Numbers of Union and Non-Union Employees Alike
By Mitchell F. Boomer on
Posted in Labor Code
The California Supreme Court has just ruled that Los Angeles County must provide the union representing its employees under an “agency shop” agreement with the home addresses and telephone numbers of all county employees, including non-union employees. County of Los Angeles v. Los Angeles County Employee Relations Comm’n (Serv. Employees Int’l Union, Local 721), No. …
Enforcement of California Website Online Privacy Law Begins
By Jonathan A. Siegel on
Posted in Legal Articles
Our colleague at the Workplace Privacy Blog has reported that the California Attorney General has started to enforce the state’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Regardless whether a company is located in California, the Act requires any company that maintains a website that collects personal information about Californians to maintain a privacy policy on the site.
California Becomes Third State to Limit Access to Employees and Students’ Social Media Accounts
By Jonathan A. Siegel on
Posted in Legal Articles
Written by: Joseph Lazzarotti
Late last week, California Governor Jerry Brown "took to Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace to announce that he has signed two bills that increase privacy protections for social media users in California."
As discussed, one of the bills, A.B. 1844, updates California’s Labor Code to significantly limit when employers could ask employees and job…