Daniel Cooper reports: Google has escaped the risk of a lawsuit after violating the privacy of around 5.4 million iPhone users in the UK. The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that it cannot allow a US-style Class Action suit to be lobbed at the search giant after it deliberately created a workaround to track Safari users. The judgment,…
Category: Non-U.S.
Progress on the Pending EU ePrivacy Regulation
Dan Cooper, Kristof Van Quathem, and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington & Burling write: According to a leaked draft, on November 4, 2021, the Council of the European Union (“Council”) and the European Parliament (“Parliament”) agreed a number of amendments to the following three chapters of the draft ePrivacy Regulation, which will replace the…
Russia Slaps Google With New Fine For Violating Internet Law
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports: A Russian court has ordered Google to pay 2 million rubles ($28,085) for violating the country’s rules on banned content. In recent months, Russian courts have ordered Google to pay fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars for failing to delete banned content on its search engine and YouTube. Read…
Now, Yahoo Shuts Down Its Services In China Amid Strict Data Privacy Laws
Tajammul Pangarkar reports: Amid strict data privacy laws in China, Yahoo has decided to shut down its service in the country. Yahoo said that the decision has been taken because of the ‘increasingly challenging environment for business. With this, Yahoo has become the latest American company that has decided to exit the country. “Because of…