When the Microphone Lives on Your Face: Smart Glasses in the Workplace and the Clinic

A practitioner’s guide to recording law, privacy regulation, and compliance exposure as AI eyewear goes mainstream. The newest generation of smart glasses, which includes Meta’s Ray-Ban line, the Ray-Ban Display, Google’s Android XR devices, and a growing field of competitors, has quietly changed a legal assumption that decades of privacy doctrine were built on: that …

Water Treatment Giant Puts Former Employee in Hot Water For Allegedly Stealing Trade Secrets

Water treatment giant Ecolab Inc. sued its former marketing manager, Preston Alexander, and his new company, One Degree Medical, alleging Alexander stole trade secrets to set up a competing business in violation of his employment agreement and state and federal trade secrets laws. In this case, both Ecolab and Alexander’s new company sell systems for …