To ensure workforce safety and security, many employers routinely conduct background checks on candidates for employment. However, these seemingly protective actions can expose employers to significant litigation risk if done incorrectly. In fact, if you are thinking...
When it was first established in 2003, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information — the Safeguards Rule — set out to ensure that covered entities maintained the security of customer information. As part of the larger 1999...
In 2019, the New York Legislature strengthened its commitment to keeping New Yorkers’ personal information safe and secure. That year, the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act became law. This new consumer privacy law was put in place to...
You have been hacked. Those are four words no business owner wants to hear. Whether hackers stole personal information from a server, an employee copied information from a drive, or customer information was inadvertently exposed on the internet, you need to know how...
The Freelance Isn’t Free Act (the “Act”) was passed by the Legislature in June of 2022 and vetoed by the Governor in December of 2022. We have deleted the balance of this post.
We thought it might make sense to take a minute and talk about the phenomenon knowns as “copyright trolls.” Persons or companies looking for copyright infringement, sometimes known as “copyright trolls,” can be an unexpected and expensive problem. Similar to what has...
