AFP reports that Max Shrem is filing four new cases as GDPR goes into effect: “One is in France against Google on Android, the other one is on Instagram in Belgium, the third one is in Hamburg against WhatsApp and the fourth one is in Austria against Facebook,” Schrems told AFP, adding [Read More…]
Manu Sebastian reports: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court questioning the privacy policy of Microsoft Corporation, alleging that it indulges it an unauthorized collection of data of users without their knowledge and permission, and its storage in foreign locations, leading to violation of right to privacy. According to [Read More…]
Daniel Golightly reports: Google is reportedly facing a collective suit in the U.K. worth up to $4.3 billion, stemming from a workaround the company is alleged to have implemented on iOS’s Safari Browser back in 2011. In this new case, a group called “Google You Owe Us” is representing 4.4 [Read More…]
From EPIC: EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief, joined by forty-four technical experts and legal scholars (members of the EPIC Advisory Board), in the OPM Data Breach case. The case concerns the data breach at the US Office of Personnel and Management in 2015 that affected 22 [Read More…]