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Despite Early Challenges, European Commission Adopts EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
After months of negotiations, today the College of Commissioners formally adopted the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”). This is an encouraging development for the more than 4,400 U.S. companies that had…
Who's Still "Standing" Following Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins?
From the first month of district court decisions issued since the United States Supreme Court decided Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, No. 13-1339, 2016 WL 2842447, *3 (U.S. May 16, 2016), it appears the needle on Article III…
Going Geo-Loco: FTC Settles with Mobile Ad Network over Geolocation Collection
The FTC announced a settlement on Wednesday with mobile advertising company, InMobi Pte Ltd., concerning allegations that the company deceptively tracked the geolocation of hundreds of millions of unknowing consumers,…
Some Things are Best Kept Private: FTC Settles with Company for Using Private Health Data in Public Physician Reviews
The FTC recently reinforced its commitment to protecting consumer health data in its settlement with electronic health record company Practice Fusion. The company, which stores consumer health data in a cloud for…
Privacy Shield Setback? European Parliament Asks to Revisit Negotiations
The saga continues on the quest to improve the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Agreement (“Privacy Shield”), the framework that, if enacted, would permit transatlantic data flows from the EU to the U.S. Yesterday, the European…