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New York Enhances Employee and Consumer Privacy Rights Under its Social Security Number Protection Law

By Michael S. Arnold

Four years ago, New York enacted a Social Security Number Protection Law, N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law, §399-dd, aimed at combating identity theft by requiring employers to better safeguard employee social security numbers in their possession.  (Click here for our summary of the law).  Now, New York is going one step further with its passage of two new Social Security Number Protection laws. 

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Discrimination against the unemployed: New protected category?

On September 8, 2011, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress, during which he unveiled a comprehensive jobs plan aimed at spurring job creation and jump-starting a stalled economy.  The President’s proposal includes a provision banning companies from refusing to hire unemployed workers.

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