Google, Sensitive Personal Information

Court of Appeal Considers the Test for CPR 19.8 Representative Actions in Prismall v Google

BCLP on 2/7/2025

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

CFPB Analyzes Mobile Device Tap-To-Pay Market as Possible Precursor to New Regulation

Goodwin on 9/11/2023

On September 7, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published its analysis of how smartphone companies are affecting consumers’ use of so-called “tap-to-pay” technology – the wireless transfer of data...more

FTC diagnoses common digital practices as both UDAP and breach

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 2/9/2023

In a groundbreaking decision, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it was diagnosing GoodRx’s use of tracking pixel codes and analytics, its digital strategy, as not only an unfair or deceptive act or abusive practice...more

Private causes of action not preempted by COPPA, court says

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 2/6/2023

In Jones v. Google, LLC, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a district court judge erred in finding that state privacy claims were preempted by the federal statutory framework...more

Class Action Against Google Over COVID-19 Contact Tracking App Highlights New Layers of Data Privacy Consideration

Knobbe Martens on 5/13/2021

On April 27, 2021, a class action lawsuit was filed against Google, Inc. (“Google”) alleging that the Google-Apple Exposure Notification System (“GAEN”) – the company’s COVID-19 contact tracking app – contained a flaw that...more

Privacy Concerns Multiply as Digital Contact Tracing Spreads: U.S. Tech Industry Takes the Lead as Congress Fails to Act

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 6/22/2020

As businesses and other organizations in the private sector cautiously open their doors in the wake of the pandemic, DCT enables more efficient tracing of infected employees and notification to those at-risk. DCT also offers...more