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The EU’s Collective Redress Directive — An Analysis of the Interplay with EU General Data Protection (GDPR)

November 17, 2021
Editorial Team
Class Actions, Collective Redress Directive, Consumer Privacy, Cookies, European Union, GDPR

In this fourth alert in our series regarding the European Parliament’s formal endorsement of a new collective actions legislation titled the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers, we analyze the interplay between this new Directive and EU General Data Protection…

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Lloyd v Google: A Sigh of Relief for Data Controllers

November 15, 2021
Editorial Team
Breach response, Class Actions, Courts, Data Breach, Data Controllers, Data Protection, DPA 1998, European Union, United Kingdom

In unanimously refusing to allow a representative action to proceed, the UK Supreme Court may have sounded the death knell for opt-out class actions in England for data breaches: Lloyd v Google [2021] UKSC 50. The Safari workaround Back in 2011 Apple’s Safari web browser on iPhones blocked all third-party cookies. This prevented popular websites…

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Initial Defenses Under the CCPA and CPRA: 8 Key Takeaways

October 19, 2021
Editorial Team
Business, CCPA, Class Actions, Consumer Privacy, CPRA, Penalties and Enforcement

Since the Jan. 1, 2020 kickoff for private enforcement under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), plaintiffs have filed scores of class actions invoking the CCPA. Such claims, when properly made, present substantial risk to companies including statutory damages up to $750 per consumer. Early key takeaways can help companies limit risk under the CCPA…

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