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…]
Jon Baines writes: I suspect everyone is now fed up to the back teeth of emails from long-forgotten and sometimes never-known businesses and organisations claiming they need us to renew our consent to receive electronic marketing from them. In many cases we never wanted the marketing in the first place and therefore almost [Read More…]
Gavin Reinke of Alston & Bird writes: The Georgia Court of Appeals recently reaffirmed its prior conclusion that there is no duty to safeguard personal information under Georgia law. In McConnell v. Ga. Dep’t of Labor, — S.E.2d —-, 2018 WL 2173252 (Ga. App. May 11, 2018), the Court of [Read More…]
Giulio Coraggio of DLA Piper writes: The Italian privacy law integrating the GDPR has been finalized by the Board of Ministers, unveiling unexpected surprises a few days before the 25th of May 2018. The Italian Board of Ministers issued the final text of the legislative decree integrating the EU General Data [Read More…]