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  On March 21, 2017, Attorney General Schneiderman announced that his office received a record number of data breach notices in 2016. Around 1,300 data breaches were reported in 2016. This represented a 60% increase over the previous year; these breaches exposed the personal records of 1.6 million New Yorkers in 2016. Hacking represented the […]

In its plenary meeting held in April 2017, Working Party 29 (WP29) examined certain critical matters regarding the implementation of Regulation 2016/679, the s.c. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). After having examined the comments received during the public consultation which ended on February 15, 2017 (see here), WP29 adopted the final versions of several guidelines, and […]

On February 27, 2017, an Illinois federal court denied Google’s motion to dismiss a claim alleging that Google handles images in violation of the Illinois 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). In a (putative) class action against Google Photos, plaintiffs alleged that the service collects, stores and uses- without informed consent and in violation of BIPA – the […]

The first filed privacy class law against a law firm was sent to arbitration. On April 15, 2016, Plaintiffs filed the first class action complaint against a law firm for “systematically exposing confidential client information and storing client data without adequate security”. The complaint accuses Johnson & Bell, a mid-sized Chicago firm, of failing to […]

Update – April 2017 In December 2016 the Washington Supreme Court published Proposed Amendments to nonlawyers’ provision of legal services opening for Comments (among others). The comment period closes April 30, 2017. Any changes adopted would be effective no earlier than September 2017. See proposed changes here: http://www.courts.wa.gov/court_rules/?fa=court_rules.proposedDetails&proposedId=1101 Background: The Washington state supreme court has adopted […]

On March 2, 2017, the California Supreme Court held that the electronic communications of a public employee about the conduct of public business may be subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act (“CPRA”) even if the employee used a personal account. The court considered how the law, originally designed to cover paper documents, […]

On February 15, 2017, the Corte di Cassazione, the Italian Supreme Court, refused to hold that every criminal defendant has a right to have his or her personal data deleted from a published decision. The court must evaluate each case to determine if it is appropriate to omit certain personal data. The Supreme Court clarified the terms under which […]

On February 23, 2017, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA), ordered a mother to delete from her Facebook feed posts containing two  judgments that include private aspects of her family’s life and most of all her daughter’s life. The DPA noted that the posted judgments allowed the identification of the […]

  On March 14, 2017, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) released Opinion 4/2017 on the 2015 Proposal for a Directive (1) on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content  (1) on certain aspects concerning contracts for the supply of digital content and  (2) on certain aspects concerning contracts for the online and […]

Amazon agreed to release information after prosecutors subpoenaed the information collected through digital assistant Amazon Echo, which answers to the name Alexa. More information is available at http://www.abajournal.com…     Follow us on& Like us on