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Location and Mobile Data in the Fight against COVID-19 – An Overview of U.S. and Global Efforts

April 11, 2020 By Amy Mushahwar, Daniel Felz and Jon Knight

Governments are increasingly seeking to leverage consumer geolocation and other mobile device data to assist with fighting the spread of COVID-19, as cases continue to mount globally.  Location data can be of significant value to public health models, such as models that determine areas where social-distancing measures are needed or test whether such measures are […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Data Protection, Data Security, ePrivacy, GDPR, International, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Analytics, Cross-border, EU Data Protection, Location Data, Mobile Data, Senate, Telecoms, The White House, Tracking, U.S. Privacy Law, US Congress

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

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

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

InMobi to Pay $950,000 to Settle FTC Charges that it Secretly Tracked Phone Users

June 30, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that InMobi, a Singapore-based mobile advertising company whose products are used by many Android and iOS app makers to deliver advertisements to consumers, will pay $950,000 in civil penalties and implement a comprehensive privacy program to settle FTC charges for deceptively tracking the locations of hundreds of millions of […]

Filed Under: Children's Privacy, Mobile Privacy Tagged With: Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Marketing, Mobile Technologies, Tracking

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