Bethan John

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• ECJ says Polish reforms breached GDPR
• Microsoft earmarks $425 million for LinkedIn fine
• Meta seeks injunction against “biased” FTC
• Belgian regulator bans FATCA US transfers
• Special Report: Has the GDPR failed?
• TikTok children’s data decision referred to EDPB
• German antitrust authority attacks messenger and video services’ data practices
• Canadian regulator to challenge Meta defeat
• OpenAI and Microsoft fail to shake AI lawsuit
• High Court judge concerned about novel Equifax trial
• ECJ confirms access rights scope
• ECJ ruling revives GDPR damage claims
• Andrea Jelinek: The exit interview
• ECJ opinion: Controllers face high burden of proof on breach liability
• EDPS: new Privacy Shield represents “big progress”
• Nineteen companies face extra DSA rules
• Onfido agrees to pay $28.5m to settle privacy class action
• Amazon to face driver spying claims in court
• Meta beats Canadian regulator in court
• Korean Supreme Court orders Google to disclose shared data
• “Retroactive” LGPD fines spark debate in Brazil
• Swedish GDPR fine against Klarna cut
• Cadwalader hit with data breach class action
• Canada launches ChatGPT investigation
• ChatGPT blocked in Italy
• Czech €13.7 million Avast fine emerges
• Meta ordered to pay €731 million LGPD damages
• France plans new class action regime
• Google again seeks to throw out Incognito tracking lawsuit
• Google fights UK health data class action
• Senior Brazilian court confirms non-material damages proof burden
• DPC issues €750,000 fine against bank
• Austria enforces against Meta trackers
• Dutch judgment heralds Meta compensation claims
• Singapore watchdog slams “uncooperative and evasive” company
• China to gain new data regulator
• UK data reform legislation returns – again
• Tech company claim over ex-employee data disclosure succeeds
• ANPD poised to start issuing LGPD fines
• Soriano GDPR and libel litigation settles
• New Mexico accuses Meta of trying to dodge litigation
• Hacked telecoms company awarded $4.4 million
• High Court criticises “mess” of Equiniti lawsuit
• Costs scrutinised in Equiniti lawsuit
• TikTok under pressure from four regulators in Canada
• First impressions of Brazil's new data law in action
• Soriano seeks again to stop US banking data disclosure
• Experian enforcement notice: ICO got balance “wrong”
• Italian regulator’s €26.5 million penalty overturned
• GDPR extraterritorial lawsuit defendants accused of seeking “extravagantly wide” discovery

• DPC settles Facebook data breach litigation
• No appeal against strike-out in ongoing TalkTalk litigation
• Meta predicts low take-up if UK class damages awarded
• Meta: “Onerous” antitrust class action should not be certified
• Meta fights £2.3 billion antitrust class action certification
• Farewell to the “toothless tiger” – Slovenia implements GDPR
• Spanish location data decision struck down
• T-Mobile hit with lawsuits following breach announcement
• Impressive, but not always right: ChatGPT and data protection compliance
• Pressure mounts against Stability AI
• Member states have autonomy for GDPR fining, Deutsche Wohnen tells ECJ
• German GDPR fines at stake in ECJ hearing
• Another ICO SAR decision appeal fails
• Further details of EDPB/DPC split emerge
• NGO sues DPC and Meta
• Court reduces Belgian DPA’s penalties
• DPC finalises Meta inquiries with €390 million in fines
• Winter break 2022 round-up
• Microsoft to roll out EU data localisation in the new year
• ECJ advisers clarify scope of access rights
• Brazil’s AI commission presents report to senate
• TalkTalk data breach litigation continues
• Polish DPA issues €340,000 fine
• CNIL issues €300,000 penalty
• High Court hears telecoms hacking dispute
• Grindr fine forwarded to Norwegian appeal board
• Ireland says Meta’s submissions included “far-reaching inaccuracies”
• Competition and data privacy converge in France
• Italy issues €1.4 million GDPR fine
• High Court rejects ICO challenge – but grants permission to appeal
• EDF fined €600,000 in France
• Osler expands data litigation offering
• ICO hits out at Clearview’s “extremely powerful monitoring tool”
• “The ICO is not the world’s data protection policeman” – Clearview counsel
• Clearview claims ICO lacks jurisdiction
• Portugal issues first fine for lack of DPO
• "Swamped" ICO defends judicial review about failure to investigate SAR complaint
• Law firms advocate risk-based approach to data transfers
• Oracle claims class action plaintiffs lack standing
• Lloyd v Google: one year on
• Twitter threatened with new Dutch privacy class action
• Defendant’s complaint to ICO was “just nonsense”, tech company counsel claims
• Spanish watchdog issues €525,000 fine
• DCMS official highlights importance of UK adequacy
• French data controllers: time to get auditing
• ECJ advocate-general validates IP address retention to fight piracy
• German regulator and MEP slam US executive order
• Dutch banking data-sharing proposal moves forward
• Clearview AI's woes continue with new €20 million fine
• Dechert and former partners face new hacking claim