Topic
Data Gathering
436 published works
Antitrust and Competition Report
German FCO limits Facebook’s scope for collecting and combining data
By Tilman Siebert, Dr. Michaela Westrup LL.M., Dr. Corinna Kammerer
Facebook has a unique positioning in the digital market, which is based entirely on the collecting of user data. Currently, users have only one option: accepting the terms and conditions…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
U.S. Privacy Bill Would Let Consumers Block Collection of Uneccessary Data
By Odia Kagan
Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley plans to propose a bill that would let consumers block all websites from collecting unnecessary data. The proposal would allow consumers to choose a single…
Gov Con Employment Exchange
EEOC on Target to Open Pay Data Collection Portal In July
In its latest progress report, submitted to the Court on May 24, 2019, the EEOC details its efforts over the past weeks to get the new EEO-1 pay data reporting…
Cluster Text Blog
Highlights from EDRM Workshop 2019
By Bill Dimm
The annual EDRM Workshop was held at Duke Law School starting on the evening of May 15th and ending at lunch time on the 17th. It consisted of a mixture…
The Data Advisor
Belgian Facebook Case Referred to the European Court of Justice
On May 8, 2019, the Brussels Court of Appeal referred the Belgian Data Protection Authority’s (DPA) case against Facebook to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) to address jurisdictional issues…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
HMRC information notice held to have extraterritorial effect
By Dominic Stuttaford (UK), Andrew Reeves (UK)
In the recent case of Jimenez, the Court of Appeal held that HMRC has the power to send an information notice to a UK national and former UK resident who…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Music to Your Ears? Court Rules Bose Can Gather Your Music Listening Habits
According to a recent decision from a federal district court in Illinois, Bose Corp. may monitor and collect information about the music and audio files consumers choose to play through…
Texas Bar Blog
SXSW: Taming the Orwellian surveillance state
The harvesting of data via artificial intelligence, biometrics technology, and digital data collection is currently outpacing laws regulating its use according to a recent panel at the South by Southwest…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
FTC Task Force on Tech Industry Competition Will Incorporate Data Collection and Privacy Into Oversight
By Odia Kagan
Competition considerations in how big tech companies handle personal data - the U.S. version. Bloomberg Law reports that following a number of actions by European Union competition authorities, U.S. antitrust…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
Germany Limits Facebook’s Data Collection and Processing, Refers to GDPR
By Emmanuel Ronco, Natascha Gerlach, Christian Fischoeder
On February 6, 2019, the German antitrust agency, the Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”), imposed limitations on Facebook’s current practice of collecting and processing user data and prohibited using the related…