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Louisiana Privacy: What you need to know

Invasion of privacy. Louisiana recognizes all four common law invasion of privacy claims: intrusion upon solitude or seclusion, public disclosure of private facts (e.g., unreasonable publicity given to one's private life), false light privacy (e.g., publicity that normally places the other in a false light before the public), and appropriation of one's name or likeness. Additional information on these common-law rights of privacy is available.
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Louisiana law provides that wire, electronic, or oral communications may not be intercepted, with certain statutory exceptions. For example, the “business extension exception” allows employers to monitor communications that are carried out with certain kinds of equipment in the ordinary course of business. In addition, the law is not violated if a party to the communication gives prior consent (LA Rev. Stat. Sec. 15:1303).
Under Louisiana's Database Security Breach Notification Law, any person who conducts business or any agency in the state that owns or licenses computerized data that include personal information that discovers a breach in the security of the system containing such data must notify any resident of the state whose personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person. The notification must be made in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with the legitimate needs of law enforcement or any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach, prevent further disclosures, and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system (LA Rev. Stat. Sec. 51:3074).
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