DLA Piper writes: When it comes to privacy, Spain has a very special connection with the right to be forgotten. After all, the epic battles in the administrative and judicial struggle started in Spain between Facebook and Mr Mario Costeja played a significant role in shaping what is now the erasure right enshrined in the…
Category: Laws
ICE Is Trying To Force BuzzFeed News To Divulge Its Sources
Hamed Aleaziz reports: Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators issued a subpoena this week demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources — an extraordinary attempt by the government to interfere with a news outlet acting under the protections of the First Amendment, and a move that the agency’s former chief lambasted as “embarrassing.” The effort to pressure…
Federal Immigration and Customs Cannot Access Immigrant’s DMV Records Without Court Order
Raymond G. Lahoud of Norris McLaughlin writes: On November 30, 2020, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Rochester Judge’s decision to the lawsuit that sought to repeal the Driver’s License Access and Privacy Act, which allows immigrants without documents to apply and a receive driver’s license. The state of New York, as of…
New Mexico AG Files Notice of Appeal in Suit Against Google Regarding Alleged Violations of COPPA
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On November 27, 2020, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in the lawsuit it brought against Google on February 20, 2020, regarding alleged violations of the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) in connection with G-Suite for…