Australian Watchdog launches action against Facebook
The Australian Information Commissioner has lodged proceedings against Facebook in the Federal Court, alleging the social media platform has committed […]
Court cases
What Facebook’s $550M settlement teaches us about the future of facial recognition
In January, plaintiffs and Facebook reached the largest privacy settlement in U.S. history. Facebook agreed to settle for $550 million […]
New Mexico Sues Google Over Children’s Privacy Violations
New Mexico’s attorney general sued Google on Thursday, saying the tech giant used its educational products to spy on the […]
Big Telecom Say It Has First Amendment Right to Sell Your Private Data
ISPs say that a law requiring users to opt-in to having their location and financial data sold is a ‘burdensome […]
Police keeping drink-driver’s DNA breached his rights, Human Rights Court rules
UK police who indefinitely retained in their records the DNA profile of a man convicted of drink-driving breached his human […]
Welfare surveillance system violates human rights, Dutch court rules
A Dutch court has ordered the immediate halt of an automated surveillance system for detecting welfare fraud because it violates […]
Clearview AI Slammed With New Lawsuit Over ‘Faceprint’
The start-up Clearview AI, which reportedly sells faceprint databases to police departments, is now facing a second potential class-action lawsuit. […]
German court sides with consumer groups against Facebook data collection
Facebook has suffered a blow against its data collection practices in Europe, with a German court ruling some of the […]
No Presumption of Confidentiality Over Documents Submitted in Marketing Authorization Dossier
On January 22, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found that there is not a general […]
EU court adviser: data privacy laws should apply in national security cases
The European Court of Justice should uphold its 2016 decision that personal data cannot be seized and held indiscriminately by […]
German Constitutional Court to hold hearing on surveillance powers of the “German NSA”, the BND
The Federal Constitutional Court will hold a hearing on the BND Act on January 14th and 15th, 2020. Plaintiffs expect […]
Dutch Court Decides on Scope of GDPR Right of Access
In late December 2019, the Court of The Hague (Netherlands) published a preliminary reference procedure (see here , in Dutch). The […]