The Singapore High Court and the Hong Kong District Court have both considered the right to compensation for injury to feelings in two recent cases involving misuse of personal data but arrived at different conclusions.
On October 19, 2021, a federal trial court in South Carolina ruled that a group of consumers could proceed with common law negligence and gross negligence claims directly against their organizations’ vendor that had been the victim of a security breach—instead of suing the organizations of which they were customers. In re Blackbaud, Inc. Customer Data Breach Litigation, Case No.: 3:20-mn-02972-JMC, MDL No. 2972 (D.S.C. Oct. 19, 2021). The court therefore denied the vendor’s motion to dismiss these counts in the plaintiff’s complaint, although it did grant the motion to dismiss for the plaintiff’s negligence per se and unjust enrichment claims.
A transparency-focused privacy software company confirms that some apps are continuing to transmit data despite some users having opted-out of “tracking.”
The study tested 10 popular apps and discovered that some continue to track even though those users have “ask[ed]
In our previous publication, we discussed how a business’ data can be protected by characterizing it as intellectual property and protecting it as such. One of the most common ways to protect business data in a commercial context is
Apple recently released the latest version of its iPhone operating system, iOS 15. While iOS 15 currently has only a 15% adoption rate, the new operating system brings a slew of new features that are privacy-specific and can
The Personal Data (Privacy) (Amendment) Bill 2021 (the Bill) aimed at combatting doxxing in Hong Kong was passed on 29 September 2021.
As discussed in our earlier post, the Bill amends the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO
On September 28, 2021, the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a draft bill that would, among other things, require nearly all entities that make a ransom payment as the result of a ransomware attack against the
Effective October 1, 2021, an amendment[1] to the Connecticut General Statute concerning data privacy breaches, Section 36a-701b, will impact notification obligations in several significant ways. The amendment:
The UK Government has published its National AI Strategy.
Click here to read more about what the National AI Strategy says about AI regulation, and its implications for data protection in the UK. In this detailed blog we examine
On 10 September 2021, the UK Government published its consultation paper on proposals to reform the UK’s data protection regime. The deadline for responding to the consultation is 19 November 2021.
In August, the Government announced that it intended