On May 21, 2013, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law Senate Bill 5211, which with certain exceptions prohibits mandatory employee disclosure of ‘personal’ social-networking account information and profiles. The revised bill passed the Washington house and senate unanimously, and will go into effect on July 28, 2013. Washington thus became the ninth state to pass such legislation, which
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By Carlos Lopez, Caroline Keller and Chris Lowe

The New Jersey General Assembly voted today on a new version of an employee social media privacy bill which incorporates revisions suggested by Governor Chris Christie when he conditionally vetoed the bill on May 6, 2013. The Assembly passed the revised version with an overwhelming vote of 74-0. The bill is
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On Thursday, May 2, 2013, Seyfarth partner Robert Milligan will participate in a panel at this year’s ITechLaw World Technology Law Conference & Annual Meeting to discuss the hot new field of “Big Data” and the incumbent privacy issues.

Big Data involves the management and analysis of increasingly large and complex amounts of data. The rapidly accumulating and torrential amount
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