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European Data Protection Roundup: 2020 in Five Trends

Debevoise Data Blog

In this post, we look back at the 2020 European data protection landscape and five trends that help companies understand not only where we are, but where data protection enforcement, litigation, and practice may be headed. Second , enforcement goes far beyond data breaches and the GDPR.

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European Data Protection Roundup – August

Debevoise Data Blog

The court also struck out the claimant’s negligence claim on the grounds that: (i) case law has established that negligence cannot be pleaded alongside Data Protection Act claims; and (ii) “distress” does not constitute damage, as required for a successful negligence claim. Deliveroo fined €2.5

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GDPR vs Meta Platforms: The Rest of the Story. User Consent Must Be Provided

Legal IT Group

Recently, we have already talked about the difficulties faced by the tech giant Meta Platforms with European supervisory authorities (Irish DPC, European EDPB) and the prospects for further litigation regarding the illegal processing of users’ personal data, in particular, class actions.

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Facebook fined €265Million for exposing PII of half a billion users!

Vogel IT Law

HealthCareInfoSecurity.com reported that “A user of the now-shuttered BreachForums in April 2021 posted a data set of 533 million Facebook profiles, including mobile numbers, email addresses and names scraped from the site in 2018 and 2019.” Facebook reported revenue of $23 billion in 2022 and $39 billion in 2021.

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You Subpoenaed My Documents, Shouldn’t You Pay for Them?

Percipient

Or it received a data request from a consumer under the GDPR or California Consumer Privacy Act. If the subpoena issued is in federal litigation, your company is likely responsible for the cost of compliance, especially if it has a connection to the litigation. For instance in, In re Aggrenox Antitrust Litig. ,

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The Supreme Court’s Decision in Lloyd v Google: What Impact on UK Mass Claims?

Debevoise Data Blog

Mr Lloyd alleged that Google breached its duties as a data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”) when it implemented the ‘Safari Workaround’. This was reversed by the Court of Appeal in 2019. Google was initially successful before the first instance judge in 2018.

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Why is data management important for lawyers?

Legodesk

Legal holds- A legal hold or litigation hold is an element of the eDiscovery process that is provoked when a case has been recently filed or a future lawsuit or investigation is fairly expected.

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