In 2021, New York City enacted a measure that banned the use of Automated Employment Decision-Making Tools (“AEDT”) to (1) screen job candidates for employment, or (2) evaluate current employees for promotion, unless the tool has been subject to a “bias audit, conducted not more than one year prior to the use of the tool.”
Joseph J. Lazzarotti
Joe has had the honor of being a part of the AmLaw 100, nationwide law firm, Jackson Lewis, which has 60+ offices around the country, for nearly 25 years. After practicing in the northeast for most of his career, Joe is resident in the firm's growing Tampa office.
In 2005, as an associate, Joe founded and currently co-leads the firm’s national privacy, cybersecurity, and AI practice groups, which touts 25+ attorneys navigating complex and emerging challenges, particularly around the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of personal information, the deployment of artificial intelligence, and overall governance, risk and compliance in these areas, including FTCA, HIPAA, NIST, CCPA, CPRA, BIPA, GIPA, NY SHIELD, CIPA, etc. Joe has handled hundreds of data breaches, stood up cybersecurity compliance programs, and established AI governance programs.