A new putative class action lodged in California federal court against Paramount Pictures Corporation made it the latest employer to be accused of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by obtaining credit reports from current and prospective employees without adequate disclosure of their rights under the FCRA. The lawsuit alleges that the company has a standardized practice of obtaining consumer reports for employment purposes, but that its disclosure form is not “in a document […]

There has been a lot of press in the past two days about an existing technology being used in a new way at an office complex in Sweden: RFID chips implanted in tenants’ hands.  The occupants of this new complex are being given the opportunity to have a tiny RFID chip implanted in their hand that will give them access to doors and photocopiers, with the promise of future services tied to the chips.  Not […]