Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform the world and the workplace. From facial-analytic tools that assess interviewees to bots that screen applicants, AI technology is gaining traction in many human resources...more
Amazon’s financial records have revealed that the Luxembourg data protection supervisory authority, the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (“CNPD”), is fining the retailer’s European arm (Amazon Europe Core...more
8/16/2021
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On 26 May 2021, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued an historic judgment in Milieudefensie et al. v. Royal Dutch Shell plc, a case brought by a number of environmental groups and individual claimants against...more
The UK Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated judgment in Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another [2021] UKSC 3 on 12 February 2021, following its findings in Vedanta Resources plc and another v Lungowe and...more
In today’s budget, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a £100 million Taskforce to scrutinise claims made under business support schemes designed to help companies and workers navigate their way through the economic impact of...more
Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in a paper published last week. It is the crime to which UK citizens are...more
In Part II of this series, California-based Ali Baiardo, and London-based Alice O’Donovan, continue their comparison of the GDPR and California privacy law. ...more
1/20/2021
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The recently-passed California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) augments and supplements California’s existing privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We are sure many practitioners are wondering how it stacks up...more
1/8/2021
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On 5 November 2020, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s financial services regulator, announced that it has permanently banned three men convicted of criminal offences from ever working in the financial services...more
The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) released an update to its arbitration rules (the “Rules”), with the changes set to take effect from 1 October 2020 and the stated intention of making the arbitral process...more
On September 17, 2020, four Republican Senators (Roger Wicker – Mississippi, Chairman, John Thune – South Dakota, Deb Fischer – Nebraska, and Marsha Blackburn – Tennessee) introduced sweeping federal privacy legislation...more
On 15 September 2020, the High Court handed down judgment in The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch and Others, which determined issues of principle relating to business interruption claims arising from the COVID-19 outbreak....more
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) contains the much-publicised right of subject access, which gives an individual the right to access a copy of all the personal data a controller holds in relation to him or...more
On July 16, 2020, Blackbaud, a U.S. based cloud computing provider and one of the world’s largest providers of education administration, fundraising, and financial management software, notified users of its services that it...more
The European Union’s (EU) ambitious and far-reaching regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), became effective on 25 May 2018. On the one-year anniversary, we reflect on some of the principal developments...more
On 7 February 2019, the German competition law regulator, the Federal Cartel Office (FCO), concluded a lengthy investigation into Facebook. It found that the company abused its dominant market position by making the use of...more
3/5/2019
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Welcome back to our two-part series examining CNIL vs. Google: 10 lessons from the largest data protection fine ever issued. In this post we continue our analysis of CNIL vs. Google by taking a closer look at the additional...more
In January 2019, the French data protection authority, CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertés), announced that it had fined Google 57 million euros (approximately £44 million or USD$65 million) for...more
After 25 May 2018, data protection will be a high-risk issue for all retailers who fall within the scope of the GDPR. Organizations can be fined up to 4% of annual worldwide turnover or 20 million euros (whichever is greater)...more