The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK privacy regulator, has imposed an unprecedented fine of £400,000 against the British telecommunications retailer Carphone Warehouse. The action was taken as an aftermath of a cyber-attack that compromised personal data of more than three million Carphone Warehouse consumers and 1,000 employees. The ICO found that Carphone Warehouse violated the UK Data ...

The Knesset, the Israeli legislature, has voted to approve first reading of the Copyright Law Amendment Bill aimed at enhancing copyright holders’ rights in light of the difficulties they face in enforcing infringements committed on or through the Internet. The Bill emphasizes that it targets commercial-oriented online infringements and does not address enforcement against end users.

The Bill seeks to ...

A recent decision delivered by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California illustrates how deficiencies in a smartphone app’s user interface can be fatal when the app’s operator attempts to shield itself from consumer litigation by leveraging the protections it has drafted into its terms of use.

Uber Technologies was sued in a putative class action lawsuit. ...