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Episode 169 -- DOJ Files Antitrust Case Against Google
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Texas AG Ken Paxton announced a settlement in principle with Google LLC to resolve allegations of data privacy and security violations. The settlement will resolve lawsuits filed by Texas against Google for allegedly...more
Plaintiffs’ attorneys are continuing to aggressively pursue mass arbitrations in privacy litigation. The latest challenge came when Judge Beth Labson Freeman in the Northern District of California ruled last month that...more
The Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in the case of Prismall v Google UK Ltd and DeepMind Technologies Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 1516. Finding for Google, the Court of Appeal upheld the lower Court’s decision to...more
If you’re feeling out of the loop about Chrome’s personal data collection, you’re not the only one. Google had announced that it would be deprecating third-party cookies. Then it delayed the deprecation. Then they called the...more
Website owners often struggle to design privacy policies that are not only comprehensive, but also comprehensible. The tension between these competing concerns was in sharp focus in a recent Ninth Circuit decision, Calhoun v....more
Following NOYB's filing of 101 complaints over continuous EU-U.S. data transfers by websites operators in the European Economic Area (EEA) in the post-Schrems II era, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) issued its first...more
In a recent announcement, Datatilsynet, the Danish Data Protection Authority (“Danish DPA”), declared that the Google Analytics tool does not comply with the GDPR’s requirements for international transfers. As such, it...more
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
Almost everyone can agree that a freshly baked cookie’s buttery, sweet, and sometimes chocolatey aroma is intoxicating. In marketing, fresh “cookies” can be equally as satisfying, if not more, for your law firm’s prospect of...more
If you are not paying for a service on the Internet, you are the product being sold to paying customers. But if you are paying for the service, can you be the product too? Of course....more
Companies using Google Analytics (“Analytics”) or similar platforms may be interested in recent rulings of several European data protection authorities that found Analytics data transfers to the U.S. to be non-compliant with...more
On May 20, 2019, at approximately 4:52 p.m., a man walked into the Call Federal Credit Union outside Richmond, Virginia, pointed a firearm at the tellers, and threatened to kill them and their families unless he was given at...more
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
It has been nearly a year and a half since the Schrems II decision issued in July 2020, which invalidated the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. As a result, companies were forced...more
On 10 November 2021, the UK Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in Lloyd v Google LLC. In what will be seen as a landmark decision in the fields of data protection and collective actions in the UK, the Supreme...more
This week’s Update features a variety of stories, including stories regarding Expedia’s planned roll up of its loyalty programs and Marriott’s recently announced loyalty program partnership with Japanese e-commerce platform,...more
In Reference re Subsection 18.3(1) of the Federal Courts Act (the Reference), the Federal Court of Canada held that the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, SC 2000, c 5 (PIPEDA) applies to internet...more
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
Flo Health, Inc., which markets a menstrual and ovulation tracking app, recently entered into a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to dispose of charges that Flo improperly shared consumer data with third...more
On January 13, 2021, the FTC announced that fertility app developer Flo Health, Inc. (“Flo”) agreed to a settlement over allegations that the company shared app users’ health information with third-party data analytics...more
Website operators are not permitted to use cookies and similar tracking technologies for analysis and marketing purposes without the informed consent of users, if this involves sharing personal data with third parties and...more
Globally, competition regulators have increased their attention to digital companies since big tech firms and dual platforms have the capabilities to gain disproportional advantages. Competition and antitrust laws aim to...more
To help its business customers with CCPA compliance efforts, Facebook has implemented the “Limited Data Use” feature which restricts how Facebook uses personal information of California individuals that it collects or...more
Technology has transformed our world, mostly for the better. We can take a road trip without a map in hand, get groceries delivered to our homes and keep track of our physical activity level in real time. But the tradeoff is...more
A little more than six months ago, we addressed the challenges businesses faced in complying with CCPA when it came to their use of third-party adtech such as pixels, beacons and trackers. In line with the evolving nature of...more