Kristof Van Quathem of Covington and Burling writes: In a decision handed down on December 1, 2021, the Brussels Market Court (Court of Appeal) had an opportunity to consider the GDPR right of access. The Belgian Ministry of Finance appealed the Belgian Supervisory Authority’s recent decision requiring the Ministry to grant a complainant access to her financial…
Category: Laws
A bill to ban geofence and keyword search warrants in New York gains traction
Zack Whittaker reports: A New York bill that would ban state law enforcement from obtaining residents’ private user data from tech giants through the use of controversial search warrants will get another chance, two years after it was first introduced. The Reverse Location Search Prohibition Act was reintroduced to the New York Assembly and Senate last year…
Section 230 Preempts Claims Against Omegle–M.H. v. Omegle
A reminder that sometimes the law protects what we might wish it wouldn’t. Eric Goldman writes: Omegle enables real-time video and text chats with users assigned at random. The case involves an 11 year old girl who was a first-time Omegle user. The complaint alleges that a malefactor John Doe manipulated her into disrobing so…
New Italian Guidelines on the Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies Now in Force
Giulia Romana Mele of Covington and Burling writes: On January 9, 2022, the cookie guidelines (“guidelines”) published by the Italian Supervisory Authority (“Garante”) on July 9, 2021 entered into force. This means that all those companies that have not yet conformed to the guidelines’ provisions should do so promptly, to avoid incurring in future sanctions. The guidelines…