Attorneys for Google battled it out with a group of plaintiffs who say the company violated their privacy by storing their web browsing history even though they took a specific step they believed would shield them from being tracked.
Claims for non-material damages – have been relatively low. However, a more recent decision issued by the Federal Constitutional Court indicates courts may soon be willing to entertain higher damages claims.
More than 1.5 million Illinois Facebook users will receive at least $345 each under the terms of the landmark deal.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has agreed to pay 92 million dollars in a settlementin a class-action lawsuit alleging the app failed to gain their consent to collect data in violation of a strict Illinois privacy law.
There has been a big bang in the data protection world in Berlin as the first and most spectacular GDPR fine in Germany has just been declared invalid.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ordered Spain to pay the European Commission 15.5 million euros and a potential daily fine thereafter for failing to transpose the Data Protection Law Enforcement Directive (Directive (EU) 2016/680).
The decision means the Court of Justice of the European Union will need to clarify the framework for EU General Data Protection Regulation damages claims.
Google has appealed to the one-stop-shop mechanism provided for in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which, in its view, requires it to report on data protection matters only to the corresponding authority in the country in which it is based, namely Ireland.
The ruling says customs officials can rummage through highly personal information even absent any reason to think their owner did something wrong.
Facebook is facing a second London High Court class action over allegations it failed to protect the personal details of about one million people in England and Wales, in the latest lawsuit to spring from a scandal over data harvesting.
A legal challenge was heard today in Europe’s Court of Justice in relation to a controversial EU-funded research project using artificial intelligence for facial “lie detection” with the aim of speeding up immigration checks.
The Federal Administrative Court of Austria confirmed that “party affinity” data may not be processed without the consent.