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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin Perry |Lauren Watson |Zachary Zagger
An online retailer was recently hit with the first class action under Washington’s consumer health data privacy law alleging that it used advertising software attached to certain third-party mobile phone apps to unlawfully harvest the locations and online marketing identifiers of tens of millions of users.
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin Perry |Lauren Watson |Zachary Zagger
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently published new security requirements for certain restricted transactions covered by the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) sensitive data export rules. The security requirements could create compliance issues for employers with workers in certain countries that have been identified as posing national security concerns, a list that currently includes China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin Perry |Gustavo Suárez |Lauren Watson
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued guidance that takes an aggressive position regarding the scope of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) as covering certain employee monitoring and assessment tools used for hiring and to gauge employee productivity. This development affects virtually every employer using third-party vendors for employee screening, monitoring, or assessment.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Harris Freier |Benjamin Perry
Signed into law at the beginning of 2024, colloquially known as the New Jersey Data Protection Act (NJDPA), N.J. Stat. § 56:8-166.4 et seq. will go into effect on January 15, 2025, as New Jersey joins eighteen other states with comprehensive data privacy laws.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Simone Francis |Benjamin Perry |Lauren Watson
In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the workplace, Illinois has joined the growing list of states taking legislative action to further regulate the use of AI in employment settings, which follows the May 17, 2024, enactment of more sweeping legislation in Colorado. On August 9, 2024, Governor JB Pritzker signed House Bill (HB) 3773 into law, marking a significant addition to the Illinois Human Rights Act.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
ogletree.com | Simone Francis |Benjamin Perry |Lauren Watson
Quick HitsIllinois’s new AI regulations under HB 3773 take effect on January 1, 2026, giving employers a limited window to prepare for compliance. The law broadly defines “artificial intelligence” to include any machine-based system that generates outputs influencing employment decisions, with no specific exemptions provided. Employers must provide notice to employees if AI is used in recruitment, hiring, promotion, or other employment-related decisions.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Benjamin Perry
In April 2024, the Department of Labor published its final rule regarding salary thresholds
applicable to the most commonly used overtime exemptions. As a
result, on July 1, the first of the mandatory threshold increases
went into effect and raised the annual salary threshold for exempt
employees to $43,888 for employees subject to the executive,
administrative, and professional exemptions and to $132,964 for
those subject to the highly compensated employee exemption.
On Jan.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Benjamin Perry
In April 2024, the Department of Labor published its final rule regarding salary thresholds applicable to the most commonly used overtime exemptions. As a result, on July 1, the first of the mandatory threshold increases went into effect and raised the annual salary threshold for exempt employees to $43,888 for employees subject to the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions and to $132,964 for those subject to the highly compensated employee exemption. On Jan.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Benjamin Perry |Lauren Watson
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a long-standing habit of creating legal obligations through blog posts. Recent communications from the FTC by way of its Office of Technology Blog evidence an aggressive expectation regarding anonymization standards and whether hashing of information satisfies that standard.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Benjamin Perry
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a long-standing habit of creating legal obligations through blog posts. Recent communications from the FTC by way of its Office of Technology Blog evidence an aggressive expectation regarding anonymization standards and whether hashing of information satisfies that standard.
