A federal court in Australia has found Google liable for misleading Android users nearly two years into thinking that with their Location History setting “off” Google would not obtain and use personal data about a user’s location. However, Google continued to obtain and use location data so long as the Web & App Activity was “on”.
Similarly, when users during ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has handed Google an unequivocal triumph in what has been dubbed ‘the copyright case of the century’. A majority opinion of the Court held that Google’s copying parts of Oracle’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the Java programming language is permissible as “fair use” under the Copyright Act.
The dispute between Oracle and ...
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (Israel’s privacy regulator) published a draft policy paper on data minimization under Israeli law for public comments. The draft paper highlights that data handlers must ensure that the personal data they collect is relevant and necessary for the purposes of the database in which the data is maintained.
Data handlers are expected to integrate the ...
The Israeli Supreme Court has scrutinized and authorized the unofficial arrangement for the removal of harmful content published on online platforms. The arrangement was voluntarily established between the Israeli Ministry of Justice’s Cyber Unit and platforms such as Facebook but is not based on any statutory authority.
The Court’s judgment was delivered on a petition filed by the Association for ...
Following Britain’s Brexit from the European Union, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently published its opinion about the EU Commission’s forthcoming plan to recognize the United Kingdom as an adequate jurisdiction for data transfers from the EU. Classifying the UK as GDPR Adequate State may authorize data transferring from other EU states to the UK.
The EDPB’s opinion is ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has resolved a circuit split between federal courts of appeal regarding the interpretation of a key phrase in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). That key phrase determines, among other issues, whether or not companies need to secure a cellphone subscriber’s written consent to send them text messages, including commercial marketing text messages. ...
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