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In a recent ruling, the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart (HRC) has set an interesting precedent in the realm of data protection and...
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The question of whether data subjects can access the data processing agreement (DPA) between a Controller and a Processor frequently...
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On February 28, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) published its annual report for 2024. The CPPA was very active last...
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Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the finalized amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA...
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The European Courts started into the year 2025 with a bang. In the second week of January 2025, they issued three highly relevant...
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In the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy law, the number of states with their own data privacy laws continues to increase. In...
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An e-commerce platform offering online subscriptions exclusively via the website of a partner company (“partner website”) must ensure...
The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) recently clarified some of the requirements that the German Unfair Competition Act (UWG)...
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Mass litigation for GDPR compensation claims have become a common legal challenge for many companies in Germany in recent years. You...
We are excited to introduce our new series 'Tech Litigation News’ on platform and privacy litigation. As the European digital...
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I've worked as a lawyer in the advertising and marketing industry for nearly fifty years. I've seen it grow from true partnerships...
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On July 10th, 2023, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”). This is the...
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As Shelly Palmer reports in one of his latest articles, the immediate technology threat facing us is not AI. While the debate over AI is...
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It’s hard to believe that half a decade has gone by since the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) first came into effect on May...
My colleagues, Gerry Stegmaier and Eric Manski, shed light on the Federal Trade Commission's focus on personal liability for executives...
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Singapore is one of the founding members of a newly established Global Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Forum. The aim of the Forum is...