Tonya Riley reports: A federal judge granted 22 states and the District of Columbia leave to file amicus briefs opposing a settlement to resolve claims that facial recognition company Clearview AI violated biometric privacy laws. A group of state attorneys general said the settlement has “severe flaws that undermine consumers’ fundamental right to privacy and…
Category: Breaches
Netflix fined 4.75 million euros for not properly informing customers
From the Dutch Data Protection Authority: Netflix did not give customers sufficient information about what the company does with their personal data between 2018 and 2020. And the information that Netflix did give was unclear on some points. For this reason, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) is imposing a fine of 4.75 million…
Hospital Must Provide Pre-Complaint Discovery in Privacy Breach Case, Pa. Judge Rules
Riley Brennan reports: The Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas granted pre-complaint discovery in a breach of privacy action, compelling a Pennsylvania hospital to produce internal privacy rules and an electronic health record audit trail. In a Dec. 11 decision, Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas Senior Judge Carmen D. Minora partially granted the plaintiff’s request…
Irish data privacy watchdog fines Meta €251 million for GDPR failure
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission slapped Meta with a €251 million fine for failure to comply with the GDPR Euractiv reports: The fine was issued for a security breach on social media Facebook which started in July 2017, and affected close to three million accounts in the European Economic Area. “This enforcement action highlights how the…