Companies whose employees are starting to return to the workplace must ensure they don’t unwittingly expose themselves to compliance failures for breaching data privacy and data security laws while simultaneously trying to comply with social distancing and other pandemic-related government regulations and guidelines.
On Thursday, during Compliance Week’s virtual Cyber-Risk and Data Privacy Summit, a panel of experts shared best practices as they relate to the complexities facing today’s workplace—remote working, health declarations, thermal screening, contact tracing, etc. Among the many relevant privacy and security laws that legal, compliance, and human resources departments must keep in mind in this era of COVID-19 are the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and more.
