A New Jersey court has stopped insurers from invoking act of war clauses to deny Merck data breach coverage – but insurers are likely to take steps to narrow their cybersecurity obligations.
17 May 2023
Twitter is facing a federal racketeering lawsuit, alleging the company illegally allowed employees to share personal user data with Saudi officials who used it to identify and target alleged political dissidents.
17 May 2023
The French regulator has fined health and wellbeing website Doctissimo €380,000 for having excessive data retention, failing to obtain individuals’ consent to the collection and use of their health data, and for unlawfully placing cookies on users’ devices.
17 May 2023
NIST’s draft cybersecurity framework hints at a new focus on continuous improvement, supply chain risk and other forward-looking practices.
17 May 2023
Jonathan McDonald has joined Osborne Clarke’s London commercial practice.
17 May 2023
Amazon has asked a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss a biometric class action against its cashier-less stores, arguing its stores’ technology does not capture identifying information.
16 May 2023
In the first privacy case heard by the European Court of Justice’s full court, EU governments have asked judges to approve the collection of IP address data to protect intellectual property rights despite civil society claimants arguing the practice constitutes illegal mass surveillance.
16 May 2023
A High Court judge has ordered a police force to pay compensation after illegally disclosing a claimant’s personal data.
16 May 2023
Canada’s federal data watchdog is appealing against a ruling that overturned its Cambridge Analytica enforcement against Meta.
15 May 2023
Three quarters of decisions that Europe’s leading Big Tech data protection regulator has sent to the EDPB’s dispute resolution process have been overruled, an NGO has said.
15 May 2023
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