Google, Compliance, EU

AI Reporter - March 2025

Benesch on 3/13/2025

Google removed its organizational ban on the use of AI for weapons and surveillance systems. The change eliminates key portions of the tech giant’s AI Principles that banned such uses. These principles, established in 2018,...more

DSA: New European Digital Services Act for Online User Protection

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 3/15/2024

The EU’s DSA, which regulates online intermediaries and platforms in digital space, came into effect in February 2024. The purpose of the DSA is to make the online environment safer, fairer, and more transparent by imposing...more

German court rules Facebook illegally harvested data

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 7/30/2020

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 14 (July 23, 2020) - Germany’s top court reversed a decision by an appeals court, stating that there is no doubt that Facebook enjoys a dominant position in the market and also no...more

Irish Data Protection Commission investigating Google and Tinder

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 3/9/2020

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 4 (February 20, 2020) - After a number of complaints regarding Google‘s processing of location data, the Irish Data Protection Commission opened an investigation into whether or not...more

Alphabet Soup and Data Security

Bilzin Sumberg on 10/19/2015

In the span of two days, mobile device users learned of two data breaches that could compromise their personal data. In one, Experian (a credit reporting agency) reported that it was hacked, potentially putting 15 million...more

European Data Protection Supervisor Weighs in on the Cloud Debate by Issuing an Opinion

Proskauer - Privacy & Cybersecurity on 12/17/2012

It has been reported that Google will give EU businesses the opportunity to store personal data exclusively on servers in the EU. This appears to have been prompted by compliance difficulties with the current EU data...more