Google To Settle Lawsuit Over Google+ Data Breaches for $7.5 million
Google has agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit over data breaches that exposed private information of […]
Court cases
LifeLabs faces proposed class action after data breach affects up to 15M clients
A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against medical services company LifeLabs over a data breach that allowed hackers […]
Man sues Ring after someone hacked security camera
A lawsuit filed by an Alabama man alleges that someone gained access to his Ring security camera and used the […]
Advocate general thinks Standard Contractual Clauses are valid for data transfers out of EU
Henrik Saugmandsgaard Oe, advocate general to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in his opinion issued yesterday […]
Advocate general will issue his view on EU data transfers tomorrow
Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe, Advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union, tomorrow will issue his opinion in […]
Campaigners threaten UK parties with legal action over data processing
Open Rights Group issue urgent notice to Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems, representing three individuals. A data rights group has […]
Lawsuit challenges Trump administration’s policy on collecting foreigners’ social media accounts
Free-speech advocates say in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the policy violates federal law and runs afoul of the Constitution. […]
TikTok found secretly transferring user data to China
According to a lawsuit file by a college student TikTok has been secretly transferring user data to China without gaining […]
German Constitutional Court Reshapes “Right to be Forgotten” and Expands Its Oversight of Human Rights Violations
In two recent landmark decisions issued on November 6, 2019, the German Constitutional Court presented its unique perspective on the […]
AG Opinion in Schrems II Delayed
The Advocate General’s (AG) Opinion in Case C-311/18, Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (so called “Schrems […]
NSO Employees Take Legal Action Against Facebook for Banning Their Accounts
The lawsuit argues Facebook violated its own terms of service and Israeli privacy law for using the employees’ personal information. […]
Facebook Seeks Dismissal Of Location Privacy Class-Action
Facebook is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit claiming it wrongly collected users’ IP addresses and deduced […]