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Labor/Employment

Jul. 10, 2019

Data privacy concerns for human resources executives

California has undertaken an ambitious initiative designed to enhance privacy protections for consumers — which includes employees — with the Consumer Protection Act, effective Jan. 1, 2020 (with potential retroactive provisions), opens a new privacy frontier.

Katherine S. Catlos

Partner
Kaufman Dolowich LLP.

425 California St.
San Francisco , CA 94104

Phone: (415) 926-7600

Email: kcatlos@kaufmandolowich.com

University of San Francisco

Katherine is the chief diversity & inclusion officer and a partner in the firm's San Francisco office, where she represents employers in all phases of litigation and arbitration, including claims implicating privacy laws. She provides counsel such as independent contractor assessments, exemption audits, and harassment investigations.

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Jean Liu

Associate
Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP

Jean is an associate in the firm's Chicago office. She has extensive experience handling litigation matters including those arising from privacy laws, commercial disputes, professional liability claims, and complex insurance coverage. She regularly defends employers against claims rooted in the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

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Unforgettable

That's what you are,

Unforgettable

Though near or far.

-- "Unforgettable," by Nate King Cole

Nat King Cole's words never applied with more force than in today's digital world. While not crooning about romance in 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis published, "The Right to Privacy," in the...

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