EU Court rules on non-material damage compensation under GDPR.
liability
On September 28, 2022, the European Commission published its long-promised proposal for an AI Liability Directive.
German court decided that a CEO was personally liable for a data privacy breach after they hired a detective to investigate possible criminal acts by the plaintiff.
When Marriott International acquired Starwood in 2016 for $13.6 billion, neither company was awareof a cyber-attack on Starwood’s reservation system that dated back to 2014. The breach, which exposed the sensitive personal data of nearly 500 million Starwood customers. In M&A activity, a target’s quality may be linked to the strength of its cybersecurity and […]
There is always significant negotiation around caps on liability when negotiating a contract with a technology vendor. If the vendor will have access to the personal information of its customers’ end users (regardless of whether the end users are employees or customers), treatment on caps on liability take on heightened importance. Given the findings in […]
Given the potential financial exposure under GDPR, it is no surprise that a great deal of time is being spent working out how to allocate the risk and liability when negotiating commercial contracts. Here is our take on the underlying law and the recent trends. Full article: UK: Liability Limits for GDPR in commercial contracts […]
Given the potential financial exposure under GDPR, it is no surprise that a great deal of time is being spent working out how to allocate the risk and liability when negotiating commercial contracts. Here is our take on the underlying law and the recent trends. Full article: UK: Liability Limits for GDPR in commercial contracts […]
New data privacy rules are pushing marketers to unload millions of dollars in liability on the agencies that help them buy their media, forcing the shops to take on new levels of financial risks. The focus on data privacy has heated up following the arrival of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which in […]
In the run up to the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, there were various dystopian predictions of huge fines and the rise of US style class action. Some of these claims have rightly been criticised as sales patter and scaremongering. Two recent cases in the English courts help to some extent […]
A judgment handed down today by the English High Court will be welcomed by UK data controllers. Lloyd v Google [2018] EWHC 2599 represents a corollary to recent case law expanding the circumstances in which litigation may be brought in relation to breaches of data protection legislation. Full article: Lloyd v Google – putting the […]
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