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Hong Kong: Marketing Company Fined for Using Personal Data in Direct Marketing without Customer’s Consent and Failing to Comply with an Opt-out Request

Posted on May 18, 2016June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Okay, $2061(USD) is not any kind of huge fine by U.S. or even U.K. standards, but it’s nice to see enforcement. From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong: (16 May 2016) A marketing company, GMS (Asia Pacific) Limited (“GMS“), faced two charges under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “Ordinance“) today at…

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SCOTUS vacates and remands Spokeo over “concrete” injury prong of Article III standing

Posted on May 16, 2016June 26, 2025 by Dissent

In a 6-2 opinion issued today, the Supreme Court has vacated the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Robins v. Spokeo, and remanded the case.  At issue was what an individual had to demonstrate for Article III standing in suing under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). SCOTUS found that the Ninth Circuit’s analysis had been incomplete and that…

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Don’t threaten donor privacy for political expediency

Posted on May 14, 2016June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Nicole Neily of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity has an OpEd on the OC Register that begins: California Attorney General Kamala Harris has staked much of her political identity on a crusade against so-called “dark money” in politics. For several years, Harris, who is running to replace Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate,…

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A Camera in My Shower? Fine

Posted on May 4, 2016June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Susan Hennessey writes: During the recent panel event at the Hoover Institution on using data to protect privacy, I had an interesting exchange with Laura Donohue of Georgetown Law, which I’ve been mulling over ever since. I had made the argument that, in discussing information sharing and privacy, it is important to differentiate between different types of…

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