In July 2020, the Schrems II decision issued and the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework was invalidated. Further, and broader than the invalidation of Privacy Shield adequacy...more
2/10/2022
/ Analytics ,
Charter of Fundamental Rights ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Facebook ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Google ,
Instagram ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Social Media
France recently fined Alphabet Inc’s Google $169 million and Meta Platform’s Facebook $67 million on grounds that the companies violated the EU e-Privacy directive (aka the EU “Cookie Law”) by requiring too many “clicks” for...more
Facebook, the parent company to WhatsApp, is reporting near-record low revenue growth. Thus, presumably in an effort to monetize WhatsApp more heavily, WhatsApp recently announced changes to its privacy policy: as of...more