Will Baude writes: Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in an interesting and important class action case, Frank v. Gaos, about when lawyers can agree to settle a case on behalf of a class action by giving all of the money to a charity instead of the class. Today, however, the Supreme Court…
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Motel 6 Agrees To Pay Millions After Giving Guest Lists To Immigration Authorities
Camila Domonoske reports: The hotel chain Motel 6 has agreed to pay $7.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit after multiple Motel 6 locations gave guest lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Sharing those lists led to arrests and deportations of an as-yet-unknown number of hotel guests. The settlement deal was tentatively reached in…
UK data watchdog fines Arron Banks’ insurance firm and Leave.EU campaign £135,000
Jedidajah Otte reports: Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman behind the Leave.EU campaign, was fined a total of £135,000 by the UK’s data watchdog today. Bank’s Leave.EU Brexit campaign and his company Eldon Insurance (trading as Go Skippy) were each fined £60,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for serious breaches of the Privacy and Electronic…
Draft Bill Imposes Steep Penalties, Expands FTC’s Authority to Regulate Privacy
Hunton writes: On November 1, 2018, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) released a draft bill, the Consumer Data Protection Act, that seeks to “empower consumers to control their personal information.” The draft bill imposes heavy penalties on organizations and their executives, and would require senior executives of companies with more than one billion dollars per year…