The acute demand for programming, engineering, and scientific talent has put highly skilled and talented workers at Internet and technology behemoths — e.g., the Apples, Facebooks, and Googles of the world — in a unique position to promote change within their companies that would improve...

Professor Levinson proposes a cohesive interpretation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) designed to protect employees’ fundamental right to privacy in their electronic communications. The difficulty of new technology outpacing the law’s ability to protect employees’...

Genetic privacy and confidentiality have both intrinsic and consequential value. Although general agreement exists about the need to protect privacy and confidentiality in the abstract, most of the concern has focused on preventing the harmful uses of this sensitive information. I hope to...

This publication contains the first version of the Hungary specific implementation of the ’Universal code on the protection of personal data acquired through monitoring in employment relationships’ The purpose of the Code is to a) provide requirements for the processing of personal data of...

On October 6, 2015, in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, the European Court of Justice, the European Union's highest court, held that the fifteen-year-old Safe Harbor Framework Agreement with the United States was invalid. Under the Agreement, about 4,500 American companies each year...

Privacy has become the law's chameleon, simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. This is particularly true of the workplace where employees often seek some private space but where the law, particularly the formidable employment-at-will rule, typically frustrates that search. As the workplace has...

THE RIGHT OF PUBLICITY: PRIVACY REIMAGINED FOR A PUBLIC WORLD (Harvard University Press 2018), 256 pages, considers the opportunities and risks that today’s right of publicity laws pose. The right of publicity has become a negative force ― suppressing speech, blocking otherwise lawful uses...

On 30 March 2023, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled for the first time on the interpretation of Article 88 GDPR, which gives Member States the power to provide for more specific rules on employee data processing. In response to a request from the Administrative Court of Wiesbaden (Case...

The world has gone digital and instant messaging is the order of the day. Traditional modes of communication via letters and posts have been rendered redundant by the introduction of electronic messaging. Meddlesome interlopers no longer need to have access to a message's physical copy to access...