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New York AG Announces $650,000 Settlement with Social Media App Developer for Students’ Privacy and Safety Concerns

March 12, 2025 By Alex Brown, Maki DePalo and Hyun Jai Oh

On March 7, 2025, the Office of the New York State Attorney General (NY AG) published an Assurance of Discontinuance (Assurance) settling claims against Saturn Technologies, Inc. (company), a developer of a social media app for high school students. The NY AG found that the company made unsubstantiated claims about the app’s privacy and safety […]

Filed Under: Children's Privacy, Enforcement, Mobile Privacy, New York, Online Privacy, Privacy Tagged With: Data Protection, Mobile Technologies, Privacy, Regulatory Enforcement, Social Media, US State Law

EDPB Emphasizes Joint Controllership between Social Media Providers and ‘Targeters’ in Draft Guidance

September 10, 2020 By Paul Greaves

On September 7, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (‘EDPB’) published its draft guidelines on targeting of social media users (the ‘Guidelines’). The EDPB is accepting feedback from stakeholders on the Guidelines until October 19, 2020. The Guidelines not only provide guidance on the obligations of social media providers (‘Providers’) under the EU General Data […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, ePrivacy, GDPR, Privacy Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR Implementation, Marketing, Regulatory Enforcement, Social Media

UK ICO publishes the final version of its Age Appropriate Design Code

February 6, 2020 By Paul Greaves and Wim Nauwelaerts

On January 21, 2020, the UK ICO published the final version of its Age Appropriate Design Code (the “Design Code”), which sets out 15 standards that online services should meet to protect children’s privacy. The Design Code is not only applicable to online services squarely aimed at children, but also covers online services likely to […]

Filed Under: Behavioral Advertising, Children's Privacy, Data Protection, ePrivacy, GDPR, Online Privacy Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, Big Data, Children, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, GDPR, ICO, Social Media, UK

Belgian Court Uses Novel Argument to Assume International Jurisdiction over Non-EU Facebook Entities

March 21, 2018 By Daniel Felz and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On February 16, 2018, the Brussels Court of First Instance rendered a judgment in proceedings brought by the Belgian Privacy Commission’s against Facebook. The case forms one part of two-tiered litigation brought by the Commission in regards to alleged monitoring practices vis-à-vis Belgian internet users. In parallel to the proceedings that resulted in the judgment […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Enforcement, Privacy Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement, Social Media, Tracking

ECJ Rules against Schrems Class Action, Sets Up Jurisdictional Questions for GDPR Class Actions

January 30, 2018 By Daniel Felz

In late 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its initial Schrems decision, invalidating the EU/US Safe Harbor and leading to important developments in the rules for transferring personal data from the EU to the US.  Since that decision, Mr. Schrems has pursued two further legal proceedings in the EU. The first involves Mr. Schrems’ challenge in […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Enforcement, GDPR, International, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Uncategorized Tagged With: Class Action, Cross-border, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, European Court of Justice, European Union (EU), GDPR Implementation, Litigation, Max Schrems Decision, Social Media

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