4/14/2025 3:25:06 PM Direct marketing and profiling: Recent fines By Aselle Ibraimova Data protection authorities across Europe have recently imposed significant fines on companies for violations of data protection laws. We...
9/14/2023 4:14:49 PM Fourth Circuit Decision Highlights Class Action Waivers for Data Breaches are Alive and Well By Eric Manski Alan Bart On August 18, 2023, the Fourth Circuit decertified approximately 20 million putative class action claims arising out of a 2018 data...
9/8/2022 1:36:32 PM Irish DPC fines Instagram a record €405 million By Cynthia O'Donoghue Sophie Ainscough Meta-owned Instagram has been fined €405 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violations of the EU General Data...
4/28/2022 7:25:25 PM CafePress FTC settlement signals future approach to enforcement actions By Eric Manski Lauren Weaver Nikki Bhargava On March 15, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a proposed settlement with online custom merchandise platform CafePress in...
1/18/2022 6:08:58 PM New guidelines on personal data breach notifications By Philip Thomas Aselle Ibraimova Yunzhe Zhang Following a consultation in January 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published its finalised guidelines on examples of...
11/3/2021 2:34:41 PM ‘Trivial’ data breach claim dismissed by High Court By Cynthia O'Donoghue Sarah O'Brien On 7 September 2021, the High Court granted a defendant’s application for summary judgment in a claim for compensation brought by three...
6/14/2021 8:06:31 PM Texas legislature updates state data breach notification law to provide for online posting of certain data breaches By Bart Huffman Wendell Bartnick Haylie Treas On March 31, 2021, the Texas legislature passed House Bill 3746 (HB 3746), an update to the state’s breach notification statute. HB 3746...