Life With GDPR: Episode 21- Cambridge Analytica Subject Access Case
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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in two cases: Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank, No. 23-980: This securities law case arises from a shareholder lawsuit against Facebook, which claimed Facebook...more
In Simpson v. Facebook, Inc., the Ontario Divisional Court upheld the dismissal of the plaintiff’s certification motion against Facebook in a proposed class action alleging that the personal data of Canadian Facebook users...more
Judge Davis of the BLS ordered Facebook to produce documents to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (AG). The AG obtained the order while investigating Facebook’s policies and protections related to user data. The...more
Synopsis: On December 6, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission issued a unanimous ruling against political data firm Cambridge Analytica for violating Section 5 of the FTC Act by misrepresenting that it would not download...more
On December 6, 2019, the FTC issued an opinion finding that Cambridge Analytica, they had engaged in deceptive practices to collect personal information from several users of Facebook for purposes of voter profiling and...more
Keypoint: The fallout from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica incident continues with the FTC’s issuance of this unanimous opinion and order. On December 6, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a unanimous opinion (the...more
Federal authorities have been looking into Under Armour’s accounting practices for the better part of the past two years, a revelation that sent company shares reeling in premarket trading this morning....more
On a recent series of flights, I watched “Valley of the Boom,” an unconventional but highly- entertaining miniseries focusing on all of the shenanigans that accompanied the early 1990’s Silicon Valley technology boom and...more
Fed Chair Powell, speaking at an economics conference in Denver yesterday, made news by indicating that the central bank would “once again begin expanding its portfolio of government-backed securities”—a shift in policy...more
The Federal Trade Commission announced its settlement with Facebook on the same day that Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee. While this may have been calculated to take Facebook off the front page,...more
On July 24, 2019, both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced landmark settlements with Facebook. The agreements were significant not only because of the hefty fines...more
On July 24, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") announced charges against Facebook Inc. ("Facebook") for making misleading statements and risk factor disclosures regarding the misuse of Facebook user data...more
July 2019 brought an escalation in the enforcement of privacy infringements by companies around the world. The trend began with a press release published on July 8, 2019, of a fine in the approximate amount of GBP 183 million...more
Just two days after the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a historic settlement of privacy and security claims against Equifax, the FTC today announced that Facebook has agreed to pay $5 billion in civil fines,...more
On May 31, 2019, the Court of Chancery issued a 57-page memorandum opinion ordering Facebook Inc. to provide certain corporate books and records to various plaintiff investors, in the case of In re Facebook Inc. Section 220...more
In a wide ranging derivative action, a Facebook shareholder has filed a 193 page complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery alleging three Facebook directors sold a total of $1.5 billion of stock while in possession of...more
Fascinating weekend feature from the Journal exploring how Sears Roebuck went from the dominant force in American retailing to the bankrupt shell of a company that it is now—all within a period of just 40 years....more
After 2018, companies may never view online data collection in the same way again. Just as the world was turning its attention to the importance of protecting individuals’ data privacy, Facebook stumbled into a series of...more
The Federal Reserve, as long forecast, raised its benchmark interest rate a quarter point on Wednesday. Chair Powell noted that a downturn in financial markets and weakened financial growth “may signal some softening relative...more
Some reaction to the HQ2 x2 news, including what a pair of new tech hubs actually means for the cities that have thrown out the red carpet to Amazon and other technology giants....more
Since its founding in 2004, Facebook has amassed a user base of 2.23 billion active users. Social media sites, such as Facebook, allow individuals to stay connected with friends and family and instantly share content within...more
Uber’s throwing in the towel on Otto, its self-driving truck unit that was at the center of an IP-theft scandal with Waymo and will shift its focus to autonomous cars....more
At Mitratech, I work in the division of the company that develops solutions in the areas of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). At first blush to an outsider, this may not sound very exciting and might even sound somewhat...more
There has been a lot of attention in the media lately with respect to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica issue and its fall-out (including today’s coverage of the announcement that Facebook suspended almost 200 apps pending a...more
Under the GDPR, data controllers are tasked with communicating to data subjects how their data is processed in a way that is both concise and transparent. From a consumer-protection perspective, this is undoubtedly one of the...more