US Supreme Court Says Your Expectation of Privacy Probably Shouldn’t Depend on Fine Print
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday in Byrd v. United States that the driver of a rental car could have […]
Court cases
Police can request communications data even if crime is not ‘serious’
EU law permits communications data laws to be enforced by the police and other authorities even when they crimes they […]
Facebook fined $33 million for failing to provide user data to Brazil court
The judge fined Facebook for failing to give access in 2016 to WhatsApp messages exchanged by individuals under investigation for […]
Ad blocking deemed legal in Germany
Ad blocking services are free to operate in Germany after the country’s Federal Court of Justice ruled their use does […]
Irish court rejects Facebook bid to delay EU data privacy case
Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy […]
Facebook bids to keep data privacy case from EU’s top court
Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe’s top court by requesting a last-ditch […]
Is this a perfect storm toward Privacy Shield’s demise?
From its very beginning, rising from the ashes of the debunked Safe Harbor, Privacy Shield has been on shaky ground. […]
UK has six months to rewrite snooper’s charter, high court rules
Judges say Investigatory Powers Act is incompatible with EU law after legal challenge by Liberty The British government must rewrite […]
Deutsche Telekom not required to follow data retention laws
Deutsche Telekom is not required to store communications data from its customers under Germany’s data retention laws given that these […]
EU case could call entire framework for international data transfers into question
The EU’s highest court is being asked to consider whether one of the main methods used by businesses to move […]
B.C. Court Leaves Google Global Takedown Order Intact Pending Full Trial
A British Columbia court has denied Google’s request to vary an injunction requiring it to remove search results from its […]
The 11 key considerations in Schrems II, in laymen’s terms
The lengthy Schrems II case decided by the Irish High Court in October 2017 left open which questions would be […]