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Google-Style GDPR Fines for Everyone? Bavarian DPA Conducts Website Cookie Practices Sweep, Announces Fines under Consideration

February 6, 2019 By Daniel Felz

As has been widely reported, in late January the French privacy supervisor CNIL fined Google €50 million for privacy violations relating to targeted marketing using Android user data.  One of the core violations the CNIL found was that Google’s Android user interface did not obtain effective, GDPR-compliant consent to targeted marketing from users.  The amount […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, ePrivacy, GDPR, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Policy, Regulation Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, Cookies, ePrivacy, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, GDPR, Online Advertising, Regulatory Enforcement, Tracking

California Legislature Amends CCPA

September 4, 2018 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Last Friday, the California Senate and Assembly passed SB-1121, amending the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) as enacted in June. We previously issued an advisory following the June enactment, and will host a webinar discussing the law (as now amended) on September 12. This blog post highlights some of the key amendments to the CCPA. […]

Filed Under: California, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, ePrivacy, Financial Privacy, Health Privacy, Legislation Tagged With: California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Privacy Activist Challenges Data Collection for Internet Businesses

June 26, 2018 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems’ organization, NOYB – Center for Digital Rights, filed complaints against Google (Android), Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook on May 25th, the same day on which the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective. NOYB filed the complaints based on the GDPR with supervisory authorities in France, Belgium, Germany and Austria.  […]

Filed Under: Enforcement, ePrivacy, GDPR, Germany, International, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation Tagged With: GDPR

Council of the European Union publishes new draft ePrivacy Regulation

March 30, 2018 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Council of the European Union published a new draft of the ePrivacy Regulation (link here) for discussion purposes on 22 March. This draft aims to facilitate discussions as we are moving towards the final version of the ePrivacy Regulation. As such, the changes outlined below are not final, but rather indicative of the direction […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, ePrivacy, GDPR, Privacy Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), Regulatory Enforcement

ePrivacy Regulation Trilogue Negotiations Pushed back to Fall 2018; Final ePrivacy Regulation may not be in Place until 2020

January 11, 2018 By Daniel Felz

About this time last January, the European Parliament released its proposal for a new ePrivacy Regulation.  The intent of the ePrivacy Regulation is to replace the current ePrivacy regime – which consists of an ePrivacy Directive and a patchwork of local implementing legislation – with a uniform set of directly-applicable EU-wide rules.  Since the Parliament […]

Filed Under: Behavioral Advertising, Data Protection, ePrivacy, International, Legislation, Mobile Privacy, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Policy, Regulation, Uncategorized Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, Mobile Technologies, Social Media, Tracking

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