The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued its draft guidelines (for public comments) on the interplay between the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the GDPR. The guidelines underscore that the DSA is without prejudice to the GDPR and does not derogate from the general rules on personal data processing, requiring consistent and coherent application of both frameworks.
The draft guidelines ...
A three-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court, sitting as High Court of Justice, unanimously held that the Israeli police may not search digital devices (particularly mobile phones) of suspects without a judicial warrant, based solely on the suspect's consent. Under the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, police searches of computer materials may only be conducted "pursuant to a judge's order." However, ...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict and a permanent injunction against Google in Epic Games, Inc.’s antitrust lawsuit. Epic initiated the suit after Google removed its Fortnite game from the Google Play Store for non-compliance with its terms, which mandated Google’s payment-processing system and a 30% commission.
The jury concluded that Google violated both federal and ...
Recent legal filings highlight ongoing conflicts between generative AI companies and content creators over copyrighted material.
A proposed class action settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC addresses Anthropic’s alleged large-scale copyright infringement for torrenting and commercially exploiting books obtained from pirated datasets, specifically Library Genesis (LibGen) and Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi), to train Anthropic’s Large Language Models (LLMs). The settlement, ...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in its judgment of an appeal brought by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), considered whether public comments and unique alphanumeric codes constituted personal data.
The issue was reviewed under the regulation governing the processing of personal data by EU institutions, which is the equivalent of the GDPR that applies to ...
The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive review of Harvard University’s federally funded research programs and is threatening to diminish the school’s lucrative portfolio of patents. President Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, accused Harvard of breaching its legal and contractual requirements related to federally funded research and patents.
The Commerce Secretary emphasized Harvard’s “critical responsibility” to ensure that intellectual property ...
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