Charmian Aw, Melissa B. Levine, and Ciara O’Leary of Hogan Lovells write: On 9 October 2025 the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) imposed an AU$5.8 million civil penalty on Australian Clinical Labs Limited, one of Australia’s largest private hospital pathology service providers (the Company), for systemic failures that led to the unauthorised access to…
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Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI in Austria
From nyob: Today, noyb has filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI and its managers. The facial recognition company is known for scraping billions of photos of Europeans and people around the world on the internet – and selling its facial recognition system to law enforcement and state actors. Several EU data protection authorities have already imposed…
The Court of Appeal upholds the fine against Grindr
Borgarting Court of Appeal has handed down a verdict in the Grindr case on Tuesday 21 October, and Grindr’s appeal over the District Court’s verdict did not succeed. The fine of NOK 65 million (USD $6.4 million) was maintained. Grindr is a location-based dating app aimed towards gay and bisexual men, transgender people and queer…
Judge bars NSO from targeting WhatsApp users with spyware, reduces damages in landmark case
Suzanne Smalley reports: A federal judge on Friday ordered a major commercial spyware company to not target Meta’s WhatsApp messaging platform, which the firm had previously told the court could force it to shut down operations. Phyllis Hamilton, U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of California, also cut the damages the spyware manufacturer,…