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According to Forbes, Home Depot (the nation’s largest home improvement retailer) confirmed on September 8 that its payment data systems had been breached. Reuters reports that five states (California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York and Iowa) have launched a probe into the matter. In addition, according to Reuters, U.S. senators Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal […]

Datagate, new technologies, customers profiling and “big data”, user consent, data protection in non-EU countries, damage to reputation, right to be forgotten, web fury, social media, web violence and cyberbullying – these are the privacy hot issues according to the President of the Italian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”). In September 2014, Mr. Antonello Soro, DPA President, […]

Lemon Juice, a New York resident, was arrested for allegedly posting in twitter account LemonJuice@moseh718 pictures taken during a trial when the judge had forbidden taking pictures. Eventually the charges against him were dropped after an investigation revealed that he had no connection to the Twitter account in question. Lemon Juice sought an order against Twitter to […]

On August 29, 2014, in In re Warrant to Search a Certain E-mail Account Controlled and Maintained by Microsoft Corp., the US District Court of the Southern District of New York, on request of the Government, lifted the stay of execution of an order requiring Microsoft Corp. to turn over a customer’s emails stored in […]

Because of a change in its platform (in preparation for Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system), certain files from the Second, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuit and from the Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California are not accessible anymore. Those files are be requested by contacting the relevant courts. The relevant information is available […]

September 4, 2014 “We would like to inform you that on the 1st of September 2014 the new bill was submitted with the Russian State Duma. This bill proposes to amend the Federal Law № 242-FZ introducing amendments to the Federal Law “On personal data” and to the Federal Law “On information, information technologies and […]

The English Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched a consultation to identify  framework criteria for prospective privacy seals schemes. The ICO’s idea is to endorse at least one privacy seal scheme which will constitute a ‘stamp of approval’ highlighting an organization’s commitment to maintaining good privacy standards. The privacy seal scheme endorsed by the ICO will […]

A Canadian law firm served libel notice via Twitter: “We are the solicitors for Warren Kinsella. Please find attached our client’s Notice of Libel.” It should be noticed that the alleged libel took place on Twitter.The contested tweets been posted by Defendant Nick Kouvalis, a political advisor in Toronto mayoral election. The tweets  mocked Plaintiff Warren […]

Plaintiff (Telemedicine Sol’ns LLC) and Defendant (Woundright Techs, LLC) are two companies in the same industry. Plaintiff (Illinois resident) wanted to drag the non-Illinois Defendant into federal court in Illinois even if Defendant had no physical contacts with that jurisdiction. For the Plaintiff, Defendant’s minimum contacts with Illinois consisted of the fact that Defendant maintained a website visible in Illinois, used social media […]

Letter by Google in response to Article 29WP questionnaire regarding the implementation of the ECJ judgment on the “right to be forgotten” Google receive more than 91,000 removal requests involving more than 328,000 URLs. The majority of requests have been made under French law (around 17,500), follows Germany and the UK. Google removed around 53% […]