Privacy Rights

Overview

We help clients strike a balance between the need to use or disclose personal or confidential information and an individual’s or entity’s privacy rights. Specifically, we advise in the areas of:

• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and similar laws
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)/International/cross-border data-privacy compliance
• Big data and analytics
• Monitoring and surveillance of customers, employees and others
• HIPAA privacy and security compliance for providers, plans and business associates
• Regulation of biometric information, including Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
• Records retention, access and destruction management
• Background checks, workplace searches and investigations
• Strategies for exchanges of data in mergers and acquisitions
• Social media and other online communications
• e-Communication policy and procedure development
• e-Application and onboarding program design and implementation, including the acceptance of electronic signatures
• Telephone Consumer Protection Act compliance and litigation
• Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act compliance
• SEC and FINRA e-communication monitoring and recordkeeping compliance