The Court of Appeal has allowed, on a unanimous basis, an appeal in Lloyd v Google LLC [2019] EWCA Civ 1599 which may open the way for mass data protection claims….
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Europol on spear phishing, caller line ID consultation, online gambling report and more in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
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Judgment published in Case C-507/17 Google LLC, successor in law to Google Inc. v Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés…
Judgment published in Case C-136/17 GC and Others v Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés…
Professor Chris Marsden and Dr Rob Nicholls suggest ways to prevent a winner takes all situation among social media platforms gathering data to power AI…
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The High Court has granted Nintendo an injunction requiring that five ISPs block or impede access to four websites selling devices that circumvented technological protection of Nintendo devices…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in Case C-299/17 VG Media Gesellschaft zur Verwertung der Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte von Medienunternehmen mbH v Google LLC that a German legal provision prohibiting internet search engines from using newspaper or magazine snippets without the publisher’s authorisation must be disregarded in the absence of its…
Lori Semaan casts an analytical eye over – and raises some pertinent questions about – the ICO’s recent Adtech Report from the perspective of someone who has been involved in the adtech industry*…
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Facial recognition in school leads to Sweden’s first GDPR fine The Swedish DPA has fined a municipality 200 000 SEK for using facial recognition technology to monitor the attendance of students in school. A school in northern Sweden conducted a pilot using facial recognition to keep track of students’ attendance in school. The test run…
ICO publishes statement on Kings Cross facial recognition and launches investigation Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner, has issued a statement on the use of live facial recognition technology in King’s Cross. She says: “Scanning people’s faces as they lawfully go about their daily lives…to identify them, is a potential threat to privacy that should concern us…