Our 2015 monthly Privacy Issues Wednesday webinar series continued this month with Jennifer Rubin and Gauri Punjabi’s Privacy in the Workplace presentation. Jen and Gauri discussed the latest statutory and common law developments concerning employer monitoring of employee email, access to employee social media accounts, social media policies, and bring your own device (“BYOD”) policies. We… Continue Reading
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Social Media for Financial Institutions – Final Guidance
Posted in Privacy Regulation, UncategorizedWritten by Amy Malone At the end of 2013, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) became the latest regulator to weigh in on social media and offered their final social media guidance. The proposed regulation was released last January (mentioned in our post here.) The final guidance is much like the original proposal with… Continue Reading
NLRB to Costco: Your Social Media Policy Needs a Do-Over
Posted in Privacy RegulationBy David M. Katz There is no denying that the NLRB has recently devoted significant attention to employee’s use of social media. Since August 2011, the Board’s Acting General Counsel, Lafe Solomon, issued three reports outlining his view of how the NLRA applies to employers’ social media policies and employees’ social media postings. Click here… Continue Reading
NLRB Continues to Speak Out on Social Media
Posted in Employee Privacy, Privacy RegulationRecently, the National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe E. Solomon issued his third and latest report on social media cases, providing specific guidance on how to construct a lawful social media policy. In the report, Solomon takes a narrow view of what types of policy provisions are acceptable and instructs, for example, that… Continue Reading
