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Data rights of individuals and corporations as pertains to international law. A major focus here is GDPR, as was EU Privacy Shield. Also look at technologies both enhancing and compromising privacy
By James Carstensen | May 17, 2021
"The result could be explosive," a Noerr partner said, after a German commissioner bypassed the Irish data protection authority that usually oversees Facebook's activities to go straight to the EU's top authority.
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By Hannah Roberts | April 21, 2021
The former Children's Commissioner for England is launching a representative claim against the app for "deliberately violating UK and EU children's data protection law".
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By Simon Lock | April 15, 2021
The promotions round is the firm's smallest since 2016, and spans the Manchester, London and Brussels offices.
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By Simon Lock | April 9, 2021
The new hires include a Big Law fintech and data privacy partner and an IP specialist.
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By James Carstensen | March 18, 2021
Major firms like Shearman & Sterling are following a trail of dry powder into the Bavarian city, which is pitching itself as a global private equity and tech hub.
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By Jessica Seah | March 17, 2021
The tech world is bracing for India's onerous new internet laws.
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By Linda A. Thompson | March 15, 2021
A flurry of app developers have accused the U.S. tech giant of anti-competitive practices and asked the EU's competition authority to right the alleged wrongs of the App Store.
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By Linda A. Thompson | March 4, 2021
With the tech giants entering all manner of industries with increasing speed in Europe, major law firms may have to start picking sides with clients.
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By Ignacio Larraín at PPU | Uria Menendez | February 16, 2021
Competition partner Ignacio Larraín on how Chile's digital revolution is pervading the legal world.
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By Varsha Patel | February 10, 2021
A similar group action was launched in October 2020, with Milberg London advising.
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By David Kalat, BRG | January 3, 2024
In the early 2000s, the now-defunct Pay-By-Touch was the first service to offer payment via a fingerprint registered with a biometric recognition system. Privacy concerns related to the massive database of fingerprints the company left behind would eventually inspire legislation like BIPA.
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By Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack | December 28, 2023
Confidentiality facilitates honest communication by assuring patients that the details of their lives, shared with their health care providers, will remain private. Yet, mental health professionals in some states are imposed with a duty to warn, requiring them to take reasonable steps to protect potential victims of their clients. However, not every state adheres to the concept of the duty to warn taking precedence over the need to maintain client confidentiality.
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By Isha Marathe | December 27, 2023
Data privacy professionals are keeping an eye on the set of state laws primed to go into effect in 2024. While some laws are similar to their predecessors', others are breaking from the mold.
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By Cassandre Coyer | December 26, 2023
The relationship between generative artificial intelligence and the EU's GDPR is a complicated one, with some data privacy professionals who claim the two can't coexist, and others who argue that a GDPR-like framework is necessary for the technology to grow sustainably. Here are some areas of contentions between the two from 2023.
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By Stephanie Wilkins | December 26, 2023
Legal industry experts make their picks for the biggest developments in cybersecurity and data privacy in the past year.
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By Wynter L. Deagle, Anne-Marie D. Dao and Dane C. Brody Chanove | December 26, 2023
Just in time for the holidays, the plaintiffs' bar has gifted the business community with yet another newly minted privacy litigation theory, according to Sheppard Mullin's Wynter Deagle, Anne-Marie Dao and Dane Brody Chanove.
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By Peter Brown | December 20, 2023
Children aged 13 and under can log in to social media by lying about their age or pretending to be an adult; yet, social media contains vast quantities of content that is inappropriate for very young users. In his Privacy Matters column, Peter Brown discusses how and why 33 states acted together to file a massive litigation against Meta to protect the children in their respective states.
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By Allison Dunn | December 19, 2023
"Judge Wolson only ruled on certain preliminary legal pleading issues, but at this stage, of course, he did not make any determination on the accuracy of the plaintiff's alleged claims or consider any of the firm's factual defenses," the firm's attorney, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner Michael Banks, said via email Tuesday.
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By David J. Shannon | December 19, 2023
In confronting unprecedented circumstances, insurers and insureds need to confirm that their business insurance policies and data security practices protect them from any operational interruptions.
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By Linda A. Thompson | December 19, 2023
Competition chief Margrethe Vestager said Brussels officials had 'enough' evidence to open proceedings.
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