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Court Upholds Mass Class Action Opt-Out Permitting Individual Arbitrations

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No company would relish the prospect of defending against a class action lawsuit and thousands of related individual arbitrations at the same time. But following a recent federal court ruling, Google (and its parent company,...more

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Federal Court Searches for Answers in Antitrust Ad Tech Trial Against Google

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Since early September 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) presented its case-in-chief against Google in a lawsuit accusing the company of anti-competitive and monopolistic practices in the complex digital advertising...more

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Getting to Know Google Analytics 4 for Legal Marketers

Why You Should Upgrade to Google Analytics 4 Google Analytics 4 (G.A.4.) has made waves since its launch, and Google has been nudging people to upgrade for the past two years. Why? Google is essentially making it mandatory to...more

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Google Analytics Runs Afoul of GDPR

Recent reports from several European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), the bodies empowered to regulate consumer privacy under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), have ruled that Google Analytics violates the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

UK Supreme Court Rules in Google’s Favor in Data Privacy Group Litigation with Major Implications for Data Breach Cases

The below is a brief summary of the judgment handed down in Lloyd v Google LLC [2021] UKSC 50 by the Supreme Court on November 10, 2021 as potentially one of the most significant and anticipated data privacy judgments to...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2021

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CYBERSECURITY - Cyber Criminals Focusing on Clinics + Business Associates - As hospital systems become more hardened to cyber-attacks, cyber criminals are focusing their efforts on smaller providers, such as outpatient...more

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Zoom Settlement Will Likely Mute Federal Class Action Lawsuit over Data Privacy

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After months of litigation, Zoom Video Communications has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a proposed class action pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California....more

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Privacy Update: Corporate Boards - Don’t Underestimate Your Role in Data Security Oversight

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to put emphasis on the importance of corporate board involvement in privacy and data security. Corporate Boards: Don’t Underestimate Your Role in Data Security Oversight - The...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Hotel partnerships with co-working companies continue to rise; Google plans to phase out...

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This week’s Update features two stories on the growing (temporary?) phenomenon of using hotel guest rooms and other public spaces for those seeking an alternative arrangement to working from home and how those new remote work...more

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OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Apple’s updated privacy practices may create headaches for marketers

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As summer was coming to a close last week (and people everywhere were doing best to hang onto the last few glimmers), there was little noteworthy news coming out of the distribution world. Enjoy....more

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Alleged Privacy Law Violations Create Potential $5 Billion Issue For Google

In a proposed class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Google is facing a potential $5 billion class action for alleged privacy law violations. The complaint alleges that...more

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Apple and Google Launch Contact Tracing and Coronavirus Exposure Software

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1. Details about Apple/Google Launch - Yesterday (May 20, 2020), Apple and Google launched software that will allow public health authorities to create mobile applications that notify people when they may have come in contact...more

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U.K. Data Privacy Regulator Weighs in on Apple and Google’s COVID-19 Contact Tracing Proposal

On April 17, the U.K. Information Commissioner (Commissioner) published an Opinion on the recently announced joint initiative by Apple and Google to assist health authorities with contact tracing in the fight against...more

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Google and Apple Have Agreed to Track You for the Good of Us All

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In an effort to battle COVID-19, Google and Apple have announced an agreement to roll-out an API (essentially a software platform on which to develop an application or “App”) to allow the creation of Apps that can track...more

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Google Health's Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns

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Google Health’s Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns - Recently, Google has been at the center of privacy concerns due to its health- sharing collaborations with the University of Chicago Medical Center (the Medical Center)...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Healthcare in the AI Crosshairs

News broke last month that Google partnered with the second-largest health system in the U.S., Ascension Healthcare, to collect and analyze the health information of millions of patients in a program code-named "Project...more

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German Privacy Regulators Flooded With Google Analytics Complaints

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Google Analytics is in the crossfire in Germany. The data protection authorities of the German states are being flooded with complaints, approximately 200,000 in number, regarding deployment of the Google Analytics service...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019 #4

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Although Amazon and Google respond to reports of vulnerabilities in popular home smart assistants Alexa and Google Home, hackers continually work hard to exploit any vulnerabilities in order to listen to users’ every word to...more

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Hackers Eavesdrop and Obtain Sensitive Data of Users Through Home Smart Assistants

Although Amazon and Google respond to reports of vulnerabilities in popular home smart assistants Alexa and Google Home, hackers continually work hard to exploit any vulnerabilities to be able to listen to users’ every word...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019

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Consistent with our experience, security firm McAfee has confirmed in a report that ransomware attacks have doubled in 2019. Medical providers have been hit hard this year, and one provider, Wood Ranch Medical, located in...more

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January’s Privacy Blizzard

As predicted, the start of 2019 provided scant respite from the frenetic pace of privacy and cybersecurity developments during 2018. This past month alone, in a blizzard of activity, regulators amended regulations and...more

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Privacy and Data Security Client Alert | January 2019

Going Deep on the California Consumer Privacy Act - The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been called the beginning of America’s GDPR. As the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States, entities doing...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

California Bill Mandates Privacy By Design For IoT Devices

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Manufacturers of Internet-connected devices (better known as the Internet of Things) should be following a new California bill closely because it would create a mandate under California law that all IoT devices have built-in...more

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“Face It”- Snapchat, Facebook, and Google Dealing with Suits Over Facial Recognition Technology

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Snapchat, the popular “disappearing image” messaging social media corporation, was free to enjoy this past Labor Day weekend due to a voluntary dismissal of a biometric privacy class action. On August 30, 2016, the class...more

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Vizio and Google Data Privacy Class Actions Illustrate Risks of Data Collection – And Defensive Value of Robust Disclosures

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Two recent developments in data privacy litigation highlight the continuing challenges to companies that collect internet usage information without clearly disclosing the manner and method in which they are doing so to users....more

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