Topic: Class certification

Could billion-euro claims fulfil activists’ hopes of deterring breaches of the GDPR and meet the public enforcement gap, or will procedural obstacles and funding issues kill off their cases?

12 September 2023

A US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit panel has remanded and vacated a district court’s class certification of Marriott customers whose personal data was breached by the hotel chain.

21 August 2023

A San Francisco federal judge has certified a class of Californians who claim Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR database collected and sold their personal information without their consent.

02 August 2023

Digital Freedom Fund and Systemic Justice founder Nani Jansen Reventlow says NGOs need to deploy litigation, campaigning and advocacy to achieve their objectives.

14 July 2023

A Dutch NGO has filed a class action lawsuit against antivirus software and browser provider Avast over the company’s alleged unlawful onward sale of data.

07 July 2023

A Dutch NGO has warned it will file a class action lawsuit against Amazon on behalf of over five million customers if the company does not agree to compensate them for unlawfully collecting and processing their data.

27 June 2023

Although questions on the assessment of damages, funding and its implementation remain open, consumer rights experts have said the Representative Actions Directive could provide individuals with a new avenue for redress.

26 May 2023

A federal judge has preliminarily approved a Meta $37.5 million settlement after previously denying the motion over class payouts and other concerns.

28 April 2023

Mobile data broker Kochava has argued that a class action following on from the Federal Trade Commission’s case against the company should be thrown out.

26 April 2023

Australia's data regulator has told a law firm that it will not investigate a representative complaint, causing confusion about its duties under national privacy rules.

18 April 2023