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The Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI) aims to prevent the commercial collection of an individual’s biometric identifiers without their consent. CUBI has been around since 2009, but it has been making...more
In November of 2023, Meta launched a service in the European Union that allowed users to utilize the Facebook and Instagram platforms “ad free” for a monthly fee. The subscription service was meant to address regulatory...more
Keypoint: The Central District of California issued several wiretapping decisions in May while two decisions on the VPPA illustrate how claims fail or succeed at the pleading stage. Welcome to the fourteenth installment in...more
As part of Manatt’s continuing monthly coverage of the aftermath of Facebook v. Duguid and how district courts are applying it to determine whether a calling system meets the Supreme Court’s newly clarified definition of an...more
The Attorney General for the State of Texas recently filed suit against Meta (formerly Facebook) alleging that the company violated the Texas Capture and Use of Biometric Identifier Act (“CUBI”) and the Texas Deceptive Trade...more
The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, the French Data Protection Agency, has issued a 150M Euro fine against Google and a 60M Euro fine against Facebook/Meta for cookie consent violations...more
An April Supreme Court ruling significantly reduced the scope of communications platforms that could be considered autodialers subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The decision in Facebook, Inc. v....more
Although the motivation behind the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act – to protect individuals from having their unchangeable, biometric identities stolen or sold to the highest bidder – is noble, the class action...more
On 23 June 2020 the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) orally announced its decision in the interim proceedings initiated by Facebook against the prohibition and cessation orders of the German Federal...more
Recent legislative hearings in the United States and Europe have focused on the means by which large third-party data collectors track individuals via websites. Regulators have paid comparatively little attention to the...more
We’ve previously blogged about the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) privacy multistakeholder process to address concerns associated with the emerging commercial use of facial recognition...more
Friend a Bot on Facebook? Messenger Launches Business Chatbots - At Facebook’s annual developers conference F8 this week, Facebook confirmed that Messenger will allow brands and companies to build bots that interact...more
As we have previously noted, there are several ongoing privacy-related lawsuits alleging that facial recognition-based systems of photo tagging violate the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The photo storage...more
Cisco has estimated that there will be 50 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the Internet by the year 2020. IoT has been a buzzword over the past couple of years. However, the buzz surrounding IoT in the...more
As discussed in a previous post on facial recognition technology, a putative class action has been filed against Facebook over the collection of “faceprints” for its online photo tagging function, Tag Suggestions. (See e.g.,...more
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has struck down the 15-year-old “Safe Harbor” agreement that permitted companies operating in Europe to transmit personal user data to the United States, as long as the U.S. ensures an...more
On October 6, 2015, the European Union’s Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) invalidated the E.U. – U.S. Safe Harbor Framework (the “Safe Harbor”) — a data transfer arrangement upon which thousands of U.S. based companies have...more
We will be following up our post last week regarding the latest US-EU Safe Harbor decision out of Europe with further analysis both from the Mintz Privacy team and our international network of privacy specialists. Our...more
Social networking platforms have long faced the difficult task of balancing the desire to promote freedom of expression with the need to prevent abuse and harassment on their sites. One of social media’s greatest challenges...more
As a technology law blogger and co-editor of Socially Aware, I monitor emerging developments in information technology. What’s hot in IT today? Any shortlist would have to include social media, mobile, wearable technology,...more
As already stated in a previous blog post, on May 13, 2015, the Belgian Data Protection Authority issued a recommendation in which it expressed its concern about Facebook tracking users, non-users and logged-out users without...more
Recently, a magistrate judge in the Northern District of California confirmed what many already believed: that information disclosed to third parties without appropriate consent or pursuant to a permitted exception “must...more