The recent Cothron v. White Castle Illinois Supreme Court decision ruled that BIPA violations accrue with each collection, leading to skyrocketing claims – and damages. It’s critical for employers to understand what this decision means, how this decision affects them, and how to avoid the risks inherent in employee data collection.  

Our March 21, 2023

Seyfarth Synopsis: Since ChatGPT became available to the public at large in November 2022, employers have been wondering, and asking their employment lawyers, “What kind of policies should we be putting in place around the use of ChatGPT in the workplace?”  Although at this stage it is difficult to imagine all of the different ways ChatGPT, and its subsequent iterations, could be used by employees in the workplace, it is important to consider some of the more obvious usage cases and how employers might choose to address them in workplace policies.

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) — an AI language model that is trained to interact in a conversational way.  At its most basic level, AI is a computer system able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence.  In order to achieve this, AI needs to be trained.  First, massive data sets are fed into a computer algorithm.  Then the trained model is evaluated in order to determine how well it performs in making predictions when confronted with previously unseen data.  For ChatGPT, it is predicting the next word in a given context to provide that conversational tone for which it has become known.  Lastly, the AI goes through a testing phase to find out if the model performs well on large amounts of new data it has not seen before.  This is the phase in which ChatGPT finds itself. Continue Reading ChatGPT – What Employers Should Be Worried About Now

As we move into 2023, Biometric Information Privacy remains a constantly evolving field, with states enacting new statutes, technology evolving, plaintiffs raising new theories, and cases being filed daily. Keeping up with biometric laws can be a daunting task for these reasons.

On February 7, 2023, we led a webinar looking at some of the