New Jersey Security Requirements (including encryption of personal information)
A proposed New Jersey regulation that may be come law in 2008. It has very specific requirements around encryption of personal information at rest and in transit. In particular, if these rules pass...
View ArticlePrivacy, Privilege, and the Cloud, Oh My: Taking LovingCare to Heart
What does workplace privacy have to do with the cloud? Everything. On Tuesday, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued its opinion in Stengart v. LovingCare Agency, Inc., — A.2d —-, 2010 WL 1189458 (N.J....
View ArticleNew Jersey Fast Tracks Employer Social Media Bill
New Jersey is ready to have the harshest law aimed at preventing employers from delving into the social media postings of employees. In what is considered lightning speed for New Jersey legislative...
View ArticleIs New Jersey Seeking to Become the New California When it comes to Privacy?
By way of a recent opinion of the New Jersey Supreme Court, New Jersey became the first state establishing a Constitutional right to cell-phone location information – thereby precluding law...
View ArticleNow What? Plaintiffs Attack Popular Disclaimers in Online Terms of Use
In Short: An old New Jersey law – the Truth-in-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act or TCCWNA – is now being used to challenge website Terms of Use in a flurry of recently filed cases. These...
View ArticleNJ TCCWNA Claim Thwarted by CA Choice-of-Law Provision
As we have previously written about, 2016 saw a wave of litigation brought under New Jersey’s Truth-in-Consumer Contracting, Warranty, and Notice Act (“TCCWNA”) regarding website Terms of Use. While...
View ArticleTCCWNA Update: NJ Supreme Court Deals Major Setback to Plaintiffs
This week saw a watershed opinion from the New Jersey Supreme Court that should stem the tide of purported class actions brought under New Jersey’s Truth-in-Consumer Contract Warranty and Notice Act...
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