A press release from California’s Attorney General, posted September 17: SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced a landmark settlement against Glow, Inc. (Glow), a technology company that operates a fertility-tracking mobile app that stores personal and medical information. The settlement, which is subject to court approval, resolves the Attorney General’s investigation of Glow’s app for serious privacy and basic security failures that…
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English High Court Awards Damages for Quasi-Defamation Data Claim Stemming from “Trump Dossier”
Louise Freeman, Dan Cooper, Katharine Kinchlea and Tom Cusworth of Covington & Burling write: The English High Court has recently awarded damages in a data privacy case, with two features of particular interest. First, the nature of the claim is more reminiscent of a claim in defamation than for data privacy breaches, which is a development…
Facebook sues Irish privacy watchdog over data-transfer spat
Bloomberg reports: Facebook Inc. sued the Irish data protection watchdog in a bid to stop a proposed order it warns could curb transfers of vast amounts of commercial data from the European Union to the U.S. by thousands of companies. The social network giant said it sought a judicial review of the Irish Data Protection Commission’s preliminary…
Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side
Shaun Nichols reports: Facebook has been reportedly asked to stop sending data from Ireland to the US, on orders from the EU. This is according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, which said that Irish eyes won’t be smiling come this Fall after a preliminary order to suspend data transfers to the US about…