In July 2020, the Schrems II decision issued and the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework was invalidated. Further, and broader than the invalidation of Privacy Shield adequacy decision, the Schrems II judgement found that US
On Friday, January 28, 2022, the California Office of Attorney General issued a press release announcing that California DOJ sent notices alleging non-compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to a number of businesses operating loyalty programs in California.
On August 13, 2018, the Associated Press published a story: “Google tracks your movements, like it or not.” (https://apnews.com/article/north-america-science-technology-business-ap-top-news-828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb) According to the article, computer-science researchers at Princeton confirmed findings that “many Google services on Android devices and iPhones
It has been nearly a year and a half since the Schrems II decision issued in July 2020, which invalidated the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. As a result, companies were forced to reexamine their
France recently fined Alphabet Inc’s Google $169 million and Meta Platform’s Facebook $67 million on grounds that the companies violated the EU e-Privacy directive (aka the EU “Cookie Law”) by requiring too many “clicks” for users to reject cookies. The
The U.K. released a National AI Strategy with a ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower in our new age of artificial intelligence. The Strategy intends to “signal to the world [the U.K.’s] intention to build the most
On August 20, 2021, China passed its first general data protection law, called the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”). The law is set to take effect on November 1, 2021 (two months away), and it applies to both (1) in-country
At this point you have probably heard about one of the many incidents where an AI-enabled system discriminated against certain populations in settings ranging from healthcare, law enforcement, and hiring, among others. In response to this problem, the National Institute
In Van Buren v. United States, the Supreme Court resolved a circuit split as to whether a provision of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) applies only to those who obtain information to which their computer access does
On April 22, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision finding that the FTC lacks authority to pursue equitable monetary relief in federal court under Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (the “FTCA”). The result means that