Home Depot to settle financial institution class against 2014’s data breach

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On March 8, 2017, Home Depot Inc. (Home Depot) reached an agreement that, if approved, will bring the putative class action, brought by certain financial institutions impacted by the company’s 2014 data breach, to an end. In September 2014, Home Depot announced that its payment data systems had been breached. See here. Investigation revealed hackers placed malware on Home Depot’s self-checkout kiosks in stores across the country, allowing them to steal customers’ personal financial information. Read more [...]

WP29 keeps on asking Microsoft to fix Windows 10 privacy flaws

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On February 15, 2017, WP29 sent another letter to Microsoft expressing its concerns about the default installation settings and continuous apparent lack of control for users to prevent collection and further processing of their data. Following the launch of Windows 10, WP29 and Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) around the world expressed significant concerns about the default installation settings and an apparent lack of control for users to prevent collection or further processing of data. See Read more [...]

ECJ considered the right to be forgotten in companies’ registers

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On March 9, 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) considers that there is no right to be forgotten in companies' registers. However, upon expiry of a sufficiently long period after dissolution of the company concerned, Member States may provide for restricted access to such data by third parties in exceptional cases. In case C-393/15, the Corte di Cassazione (the Italian Supreme Court) requested a preliminary ruling from the ECJ to clarify the right of individuals to be forgotten, Read more [...]

FCC partially stays Consumer Broadband Privacy Rules

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On March 1, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a Stay Petition in part, and ordered a “stay on an interim basis” of certain aspects of the 2016 order “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services” (the “Privacy Order”). The Privacy Order containing broadband privacy rules was published on November 2016. See here. However, at the beginning of 2017, several Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and cable associations had Read more [...]

Oracle warns the FCC that Consumer Broadband Privacy Rules grant Google unfair competitive advantage

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On December 21, 2016, Oracle asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reconsider its decision and order “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services” (“Order”) published on November 2016. See here. At the beginning of 2017, several Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and cable associations filed Petitions for Reconsideration requesting the FCC to significantly modify the Order. Among other requests, Oracle asked the FCC to reconsider Read more [...]