Well, I don’t know if it’s the worst, but getting sentenced to 24 months in prison for a network intrusion and making false statements to a government agency sounds pretty bad. I was reading about this situation last night, and it sounded like something I would have blogged about before.…
A couple of years ago, I blogged (here) about a company that installed spyware to monitor an employee’s Facebook Messenger activity, discovered a nefarious plot to secure client information and intellectual property, and obtained an injunction to stop the employee from starting a competing business. But there are legal limits…
I was skeptical whether readers of this blog — mostly HR professionals and attorneys — would register for this week’s edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Happy Hour about … cybersecurity?!? You proved me wrong. A few hundred of you have already signed up. And there’s still time to…
Shout out to the National Labor Relations Board — specifically, the Board’s General Counsel. The timing of yesterday’s announcement of her new memo to protect employees, to the greatest extent possible, from intrusive or abusive electronic monitoring and automated management practices was **chef’s kiss** It came just after I announced…
Last year, data breaches exposed 22 billion records, and the average cost of a hacking incident will run your business about $4.35 million. Yet, only half of companies have cybersecurity plans, and even fewer train their employees. Employers need help. So, where do you even begin? Let’s start with Cybersecurity…
Think of all the personal, sensitive information that an individual shares with you just to have the opportunity to earn a living as an employee of your company. As part of onboarding, new employees provide their home address, social security number, bank and financial account numbers for direct deposit, insurance…
People sometimes ask me, “Eric, where do you get all your blog content from?” Often, like today, other blogs inspire me. So, with a big tip of the cap to Evan Brown and his post here at Evan.law, let’s talk about what you can’t do if you suspect that a…
A former bank employee is now facing up to $250,000 in fines and ten years in prison because he allegedly wanted to watch The Matrix on a work laptop. Actually, there’s a little more to this story. Shout out to Google, which alerted me to Nate Gartrell’s article at The Mercury…
Image by Darrin Kiessling from Pixabay “So, Meyer thinks his organized-labor blog posts go over like wet farts, does he? Fam, let’s announce one — no, TWO HUGE DECISIONS in one day, and we’ll see how he gets around writing about them. That blogger nerd!” — National Labor Relations Board…
jaydeep_ [CC0 or CC0], via Wikimedia CommonsIt’s Cyber Monday. And, since you could’ve rested your deal-finding, typing fingers anywhere. I appreciate that you’re resting them with me before rejoining the masses for some holiday shopping online. Unfortunately, if you came here looking for links to big savings, I can’t help…