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 […]
Court cases
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 […]
US court rules against warrantless searches of phones, laptops
A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless U.S. government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers […]
UK Government Faces Court Over ‘Biased’ Visa Algorithm
The UK’s Home Office is facing a landmark Judicial Review to reveal how an algorithm it uses to triage visa […]
Australian regulator files privacy suit against Google alleging location data misuse
An Australian regulator has filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google, accusing it of misleading smartphone users about how it […]
Facebook must face $35B facial-recognition lawsuit following court ruling
Facebook’s most recent attempt to extricate itself from a potentially landmark lawsuit has come to a dead end, as a […]
Is Ireland breaching EU rules by underfunding data regulator?
Ireland provided the Data Protection Commission with significantly less funding than it needs at a time when it is struggling […]