This is huge. Warwick Ashford reports: The Austrian Supreme Court has rejected all attempts by Facebook to block a lawsuit in Vienna on fundamental privacy issues. Facebook had attempted to block the case by Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems by questioning whether it is possible to bring a case about rights under the…
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CNIL Fines French Real Estate Service Provider for Data Security and Retention Failures
From Hunton Andrews Kurth: On June 6, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it levied a fine of €400,000 on SERGIC, a French real estate service provider, for failure to (1) implement appropriate security measures and (2) define data retention periods for the personal data of unsuccessful rental candidates. Read more…
La Liga fined EUR 250,000 for using smartphone microphones to detect illegal feeds
Telecompaper reports: Spain’s football league (La Liga) has been fined a total of EUR 250,000 by the country’s data protection agency (AEPD) for using a mobile app to remotely activate smartphone microphones, reports local daily El Diario. The league last year admitted that its highly popular official app, which is used by 4 million people…
FBI announces sentencing of cyberstalker
June 10, 2019 Cyberstalker Sentenced Man Relentlessly Harassed Law School Interviewer A Delaware attorney who interviewed prospective students for his alma mater law school became the victim of a relentless campaign of online harassment—and in-person intimidation—by a prospective student who did not get in to the school. But thanks to an investigation by the FBI…