Vesela Gladicheva

Duration: 24:49 A central part of the EU’s ambitious privacy legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was put to the test recently, with a European court asked to rule on whether Belgium’s data-privacy regulator had the right to pursue an investigation into Facebook. The question went to the heart of a central mechanism of the GDPR: the so-called one-stop-shop. But the EU court’s ruling wasn’t as cut and dried as some may have hoped.

Connecticut, New York, Florida and other US states are investigating whether Zoom, the videoconferencing platform that’s exploded in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic, has violated any laws by failing to protect users’ privacy and secure its systems, the Connecticut attorney general announced today.

9 October 2019. By Vesela Gladicheva. Google's recent defeat in the "Safari workaround" case is unlikely to open the floodgates for a rush of similar mass UK damages lawsuits, but should still provide a roadmap for claimants — something companies accused of breaching privacy rules would do well to note.