A new law recently passed in the State of New York requires the secure disposal of records that contain sensitive personal information. This law becomes effective December 4, 2006 and requires that all businesses dispose of records containing "personal identifying information" in a responsible manner.

Welcome to Sixty Seconds of Privacy, an e-newsletter brought to you by the Privacy and Data Security practice group at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP.

Two recent developments highlight the risks that are presented by the use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing software on corporate computers.

Welcome to Sixty Seconds of Privacy, an e-newsletter brought to you by the Privacy and Data Security practice group at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP.

Welcome to Sixty Seconds of Privacy™, an e-newsletter brought to you by the Privacy and Data Security practice group at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP. Each edition of this e-newsletter addresses one interesting legal development in the area of privacy and data security, in a brief "question and answer" format.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is implementing regulations that will impact employers who conscientiously maintain and reverify I-9 Forms.

Although HIPAA requires health plans and health care providers to implement privacy and security policies and procedures, this is expensive and I have heard that there is little actual enforcement of the HIPAA rules. What are the risks of noncompliance?

More than three decades ago, when New York enacted the Limited Liability Company Law, some believed the partnership might go the way of the dodo. But still, we regularly encounter and write about noteworthy partnership business divorce decisions.

In Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn, __U.S.__(2008), 2008 U.S. LEXIS 5053 (June 19, 2008), the Supreme Court addressed two important and closely-related related issues involving the situation in which a plan administrator who also funds plan benefits decides claims appeals under an ERISA plan.

On May 25, 2007, President Bush signed into law the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007—incrementally increasing the federal hourly minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour over the next 26 months. The last increase of the federal minimum wage took place in 1997.

On December 28, 2007, representatives of the United States and Finland exchanged instruments ratifying and entering into force a new protocol (the “Protocol”) amending the 1989 bilateral income tax treaty between the two countries (the “Treaty”).

As California worker's compensation caseloads decline due to the 2004 overhaul of the state's Worker's Compensation system, many applicants' attorneys are now filing disability discrimination claims for injured workers under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act ("FEHA").

In 2003, President Bush signed into law the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act ("FACTA"). One of the provisions of FACTA prohibits companies from disclosing certain consumer information on credit card receipts.

Yann Geron was featured in the Law360 article "NY Judges Grill Lawyers on Unfinished Business Profits."

A panel of government regulators, academics and industry participants told a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that no further regulation of hedge funds is needed.

The Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) encouraged automatic enrollment in individual account plans by amending section 404(c) of ERISA to provide a safe harbor for plan fiduciaries who invest participant assets in the absence of participant investment direction.

Question: I have heard that a new anti-phishing feature in the most recent version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browsing software (version 7.0) may reduce e-commerce traffic on my company's web site. Is this true? If so, how can I prevent it?

Welcome to Sixty Seconds of Privacy, an e-newsletter brought to you by the Privacy and Data Security practice group at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP.

The FEHC’s draft regulations, issued last December, provided more detailed guidance to employers regarding how to comply with Assembly Bill 1825 (AB 1825). AB 1825 (codified at Cal. Gov’t C. § 12950.1) requires employers doing business in California, and employing 50 or more workers, to provide sexual harassment prevention training and retraining for supervisors.

In 2006, San Francisco passed the Health Care Security Ordinance, which requires employers to provide health care coverage for employees working in San Francisco, or else pay a fee to the city.