Under an amendment to the New York Civil Rights Law that will take effect on May 7, 2022, private-sector employers that monitor their employees’ use of telephones, emails, and the internet must provide notice of such monitoring. The following provides highlights of the new law.
Question 1. Which employers and electronic monitoring activities are covered?
Answer 1. The law applies to any private individual or entity with a place of business in New York, and it broadly covers “telephone conversations or transmissions, electronic mail or transmissions, or internet access or usage by an employee by any electronic device or system, including but not limited to the use of a computer, telephone, wire, radio, or electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photo-optical systems [that] may be subject to monitoring.”
Q2. Are any electronic monitoring activities exempted from coverage?
A2. The law does not cover processes “designed to manage the type or volume of incoming or outgoing electronic mail or telephone, voice mail or internet usage,” and it also does not apply to processes “that are not targeted to monitor or intercept the electronic mail or telephone voice mail or internet usage of a particular individual.” The law also exempts processes that are “performed solely for the purpose of computer system maintenance and/or protection.”
Q3. What are some of the law’s compliance obligations?
A3. Private-sector employers that “monitor[] or otherwise intercept[] [employee] telephone...
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