While much has been written about the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the focus has primarily been on the new rights it affords California consumers to have access to and control use of their data and opt out of many transfers to third … [Read more] about The CCPA Could Reset Data Breach Litigation Risks
On July 29, 2019, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) issued its decision in the case of FashionID GmbH & Co. KG v. Verbraucherzentrale NRW. The ECJ found that websites that integrate Facebook plugins are jointly responsible for the data … [Read more] about FashionID: Another Significant ECJ Case with Potential Impacts Across the Adtech Ecosystem
Prof. Peter Swire, Elizabeth and Thomas Holder Chair at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird, recently published an opinion piece, first in French in Le Monde, and then in English in the European Law … [Read more] about Peter Swire’s Op-ed: Schrems II Ruling Could Rupture Trans-Atlantic Data Flows
On April 30, we detailed several proposed amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) that were advancing in the State Assembly (see our previous blog post here). Since then, a number of the proposed amendments passed the Assembly … [Read more] about Potential Changes to the CCPA; California Senate Considers Amendments
As previously discussed on the Alston & Bird Privacy Blog, the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence released on April 8, 2019 the final version of its Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI. The Guidelines, … [Read more] about EU Ethics Guidelines For AI Are Just The Beginning