On May 3, 2019, Centre for Information Policy Leadership President Bojana Bellamy received the 2019 IAPP Privacy Vanguard Award. The honors took place at the IAPP’s annual Global Privacy Summit.
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Illinois BIPA Suit Dismissed for Lack of Article III Standing
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On December 29, 2018, the Northern District of Illinois dismissed consolidated cases brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act on standing grounds, finding that despite the existence of statutory standing under BIPA, neither plaintiff had claimed any injury that would support Article III standing.…
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Plaintiffs File Class Action Lawsuit Against Nielsen Over Alleged False and Misleading Statements
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On August 28, 2018, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against Nielsen Holdings PLC and some of its officers and directors for making allegedly materially false and misleading statements to investors about the impact of privacy regulations and third-party business partners’ privacy policies on the company’s revenues and earnings.…
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Facebook Publishes Privacy Principles and Announces Introduction of Privacy Center
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On January 28, 2018, Facebook published its privacy principles and announced that it will centralize its privacy settings in a single place.…
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The CNIL Serves Formal Notice to WhatsApp Regarding Sharing Data with Facebook
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On December 18, 2017, the French data protection authority publicly announced that it served a formal notice to WhatsApp regarding the sharing of WhatsApp users’ data with Facebook Inc. This decision, dated November 27, 2017, follows the investigations led by the CNIL regarding Facebook’s 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp.…
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Advocate General Rejects Facebook’s Claim of Sole Irish Jurisdiction in EU
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On October 24, 2017, an opinion issued by the EU’s Advocate General Bot rejected Facebook’s assertion that its EU data processing activities fall solely under the jurisdiction of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. The opinion relates to the CJEU case C-210/16, under which the German courts sought to clarify whether the DPA in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein could take action against Facebook regarding its use of web tracking technologies on a German education provider’s fan page without first providing notice. …
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WhatsApp Updates Privacy Policy to Share Information with Facebook
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On August 25, 2016, WhatsApp announced in a blog post that the popular mobile messaging platform has updated its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to permit certain information sharing with Facebook. …
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U.S. Government Seeks to Join Schrems Case
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On June 13, 2016, the U.S. government expressed its wish to join the legal proceedings brought by Max Schrems concerning the validity of international data transfers under EU Standard Contractual Clauses. …
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UK Deputy Information Commissioner on Safe Harbor: “Don’t Panic”
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On October 27, 2015, David Smith, the UK Deputy Commissioner of the Information Commissioner’s Office, published a blog post commenting on the ongoing Safe Harbor compliance debate in light of the Schrems v. Facebook decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union.…
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Irish Data Protection Authority to Investigate Facebook’s Data Transfers
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At a hearing in the Irish High Court, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner confirmed that she will investigate Facebook’s transfers of personal data to the United States.…
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