Topic: TMT

Osborne Clarke Madrid partner Rafael García del Poyo unpacks the recent EU Council draft ePrivacy Regulation.

24 February 2021

Data-dependent digital advertising revenues have shot up at Google, Facebook and Amazon, recent earnings releases reveal.

03 February 2021

With Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court set to decide the lawfulness of a government order for telecoms companies to provide information on up to 226 million residents, the country’s attorney general has issued an opinion arguing that government’s scheme is constitutional given the circumstances presented by the covid-19 pandemic.

04 May 2020

The Dutch data protection authority has urged caution in allowing location data to be shared with its government for coronavirus-fighting efforts – taking a position that differs from many of its European counterparts.

06 April 2020

Data regulators have greenlit wide scale data-sharing practices as telecommunications companies across the globe hand over location data to health authorities to assist in the fight against coronavirus.

20 March 2020

Telecommunications giant Ericsson has launched a series of predictive maintenance products that take advantage of its large datasets – and set out its ambition to be a “data-driven” service provider.

19 February 2020

Two US civil liberties pressure groups have backed a software company’s petition to have a case involving its filtering software reheard.

07 November 2019

The UK’s government’s clearance of a $3.4 billion (€3.1 billion) takeover of satellite communications company Inmarsat is conditioned on the company changing its cybersecurity programme.

31 October 2019

Telefónica has denied claims that it breached a contract with phone retailer Carphone Warehouse by failing to supply hundreds of thousands of customers’ data.

25 October 2019

A High Court of South Africa judge has struck down multiple aspects of South Africa’s interception regime and its use of bulk interception, but delayed most of his declarations of unconstitutionality for two years to give South Africa’s parliament a chance to fix the surveillance framework.

17 September 2019