Abigail Adcox reports: A Covington & Burling client whose information may have been exposed in a 2020 cyberattack is insisting that its identity should not be disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which had sought out client names in a subpoena to the law firm. The client, following a subpoena battle between Covington and SEC,…
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New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy
Alexei Miagkov and Daly Barnett write: We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after scrolling through…
First OpenAI Web-Scraping Class Action Voluntarily Dismissed
Isaiah Poritz reports: Plaintiffs in a wide-ranging consumer class action alleging OpenAI LP scraped private information from hundreds of millions of internet users dropped their lawsuit only a few months after filing the complaint in San Francisco federal court. The 16 plaintiffs are reserving their right to re-file the complaint, according to the voluntary dismissal…
Irish Data Protection Commission announces €345 million fine of TikTok
15th September 2023 The Data Protection Commission (DPC) adopted its final decision regarding its inquiry into TikTok Technology Limited (TTL) on 1 September 2023. This own-volition inquiry sought to examine the extent to which, during the period between 31 July 2020 and 31 December 2020 (the Relevant Period), TTL complied with its obligations under the GDPR…