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The “EMV Liability Shift” Is Coming (What Merchants Need to Know)

Susan Ross (US)By Susan Ross (US) on Posted in Compliance and risk management, Data breach, Dispute resolution and litigation
Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightCurrently, almost half of the world’s credit card fraud happens in the U.S where magnetic stripe technology is the standard. Outside the U.S., an estimated 40% of the world’s cards and 70% of the terminals already use the EMV technology. These countries are reporting significantly lower counterfeit fraud levels with EMV cards than with the … Continue reading

UK Court of Appeal Establishes Data Protection Rights in Privacy Case

Jane Berry (UK)Ffion Flockhart (UK)Marcus Evans (UK)By Jane Berry (UK), Ffion Flockhart (UK) and Marcus Evans (UK) on Posted in Dispute resolution and litigation
Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightA recent English Court of Appeal judgment could significantly broaden the circumstances in which data protection litigation can be brought – and damages can be awarded – under English law. Background Vidal-Hall et al v Google ([2015] EWCA Civ 311) involves claims brought by three individual users against Google. The users alleged that Google collected private … Continue reading

Ontario Court of Appeal finds patients’ common law privacy rights not preempted by statute; allows class action to proceed

Christine Carron (CA)By Christine Carron (CA) on Posted in Dispute resolution and litigation, General
Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightIn a recent case involving a breach of patients’ privacy rights — Hopkins v Kay,[i] — the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that a proposed class action could proceed based on allegations of violation of patients’ common law privacy rights, concluding that those rights were not preempted by the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). … Continue reading
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