On May 10, 2022, Connecticut became the fifth state to sign into law a comprehensive consumer privacy law. The law, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (“CTDPA”), will go into effect on July 1, 2023, giving businesses fewer than...more
Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest bank, faces a fine of approximately $1.5 million from the Danish Data Protection Agency (DPA) for a failure to comply with the GDPR’s data deletion requirements. The GDPR requires all personal...more
Norway’s Data Protection Agency, Datatilsynet, issued a $7 million GDPR fine to the gay, bi, trans, and queer app Grindr for processing and sharing user data—including highly sensitive information relating to data subjects’...more
Ten state attorney generals’ offices have launched a joint investigation exploring whether Meta, formerly known as Facebook, broke consumer protection laws in its attempt to attract minors to its platforms, such as Instagram....more
The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, its highest court, blocked a bid for a $4.3 billion class action against Google over claims the company violated the country’s Data Protection Act (DPA). The claimants alleged that Google...more
In the aftermath of the Facebook whistleblower’s document dump that exposed much of the inner workings of the social networking giant, Facebook announced plans that it will end use of its facial recognition software system...more
Sinclair Broadcast Group, the local-news focused media giant that owns about 300 news and regional sports stations across the country, announced to the SEC in a filing on Monday that it was the victim of a ransomware attack...more
Twitch, the massive game streaming platform and Amazon subsidiary, was the recent victim of a major data hack in which more than 100 GB of internal confidential data was posted online by an anonymous source on the messaging...more
ESTABLISHING DUTY IN CHILD SEX ABUSE CASES AGAINST THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES -
In 2019, 13 states and the District of Columbia amended civil statutes to enlarge statutes of limitations for child sex abuse claims. Eight of...more
Marquardt v. Schaffhausen, 941 N.W.2d 715 (Minn. 2020), for example, is a medical malpractice action where Patricia Marquardt suffered a brain injury when she developed an untreated infection after undergoing a knee...more
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