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FashionID: Another Significant ECJ Case with Potential Impacts Across the Adtech Ecosystem

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On July 29, 2019, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) issued its decision in the case of FashionID GmbH & Co. KG v. Verbraucherzentrale NRW.  The ECJ found that websites that integrate Facebook plugins are jointly responsible for the data collected by those plugins and sent to Facebook.  Despite the somewhat innocuous-sounding holding, this decision is major milestone in determining who is responsible (and liable) for the routine integrations that occur on practically every website.  The … [Read more] about FashionID: Another Significant ECJ Case with Potential Impacts Across the Adtech Ecosystem

Peter Swire’s Op-ed: Schrems II Ruling Could Rupture Trans-Atlantic Data Flows

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Prof. Peter Swire, Elizabeth and Thomas Holder Chair at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird, recently published an opinion piece, first in French in Le Monde, and then in English in the European Law … [Read more] about Peter Swire’s Op-ed: Schrems II Ruling Could Rupture Trans-Atlantic Data Flows

Potential Changes to the CCPA; California Senate Considers Amendments

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On April 30, we detailed several proposed amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) that were advancing in the State Assembly (see our previous blog post here). Since then, a number of the proposed amendments passed the Assembly … [Read more] about Potential Changes to the CCPA; California Senate Considers Amendments

EU Ethics Guidelines For AI Are Just The Beginning

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Artificial Intelligence

As previously discussed on the Alston & Bird Privacy Blog, the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence released on April 8, 2019 the final version of its Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI. The Guidelines, … [Read more] about EU Ethics Guidelines For AI Are Just The Beginning