Universal Consent: Building Beyond Cookie Consent
Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
Privacy Litigation Trends: Meta Pixels, Cookie Opt-Out, and Sale of Data
Data Revolution: How U.S. Privacy Laws Change the Way Data Should be Managed by Retail and Tech Industries
Fashion Counsel: Privacy in the Retail Fashion Industry
E8: Interview with Cookiebot CEO on Technical Solutions to GDPR Readiness
The world of digital advertising is always changing. Google’s recent move to delay the end of third-party cookies gives us a bit more time, but the push for better user privacy and data protection is here to stay. In this...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted a draft report of the work undertaken by the Cookie Banner Taskforce (the Report). The Report describes how regulators apply cookie legislation in handling certain types of...more
On 16 June 2022, the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“the DCMS”) published its response to its Data Reform consultation. The response sets out the UK government’s key data protection reform...more
On May 25th, the Belgian Supervisory Authority (“GBA”) announced that it had imposed a fine of EUR 50,000 on a Belgium-based news media company for using cookies on its websites without complying with applicable cookie law...more
Welcome to the third installment in our eight-part series preparing you for the post-cookie world. In our first post, we provided a deep dive into third-party cookies for a baseline understanding of the technology and the...more
Part I: What Are Third-Party Cookies and Why they are Important — PART II — Privacy Laws And Third-Party Cookies - Welcome to our second installment in our five-part series preparing you for the post-cookie world. In our...more
A cynical online commenter once wrote this about the data collection practices of the online news site Digg: “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” This is true of almost...more
The regulation of cookies and similar tracking technologies is rapidly evolving, not only in the European Union and United Kingdom but also in the United States and globally. If you have visited a website recently, you might...more
This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more
Gerade für Juristen ist Begeisterung für und ein Verständnis von Branchen, Geschäftsmodellen und Technologien – gerade vor dem Hintergrund des Datenschutzrechts und des Gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes – unerlässlich und...more
Tides of change in the digital advertising and regulatory landscape over the last few years have recently ushered in an increasingly likely future without third-party cookies. Background – An Abbreviated History of Recent...more
Cookies and trackers sat on a wall. Cookies and trackers had a great fall. …and all the regulators and all DPAs couldn’t put cookies together again. The Spanish Agencia Española de Protección de Datos AEPD has issued a...more
For 25 years – since the introduction of Internet Explorer 2 – our browsers supported third-party cookie technology that formed the basis of internet advertising. The cookie party is ending. Tech lawyers and business...more
On May 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted updated guidelines on consent under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in Guidelines 05/2020. The Guidelines clarify existing guidance issued in...more
On May 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (‘EDPB’) adopted updated guidelines on the meaning of ‘consent’ under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’)....more
It is impossible to browse the Internet without bumping into a popup window requesting consent to enable cookies on the web page. Website cookies are text files saved to devices that contain information about a person’s...more
Last year towards the end of May, a barrage of emails and pop-ups informed online users about how companies use cookies – small bits of software that track website activity – in accordance with a requirement under the...more
The Situation: The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") has been effective since May 2018 and has resulted in increased requirements for obtaining consent for the processing of personal data. However,...more
Data protection authorities (DPAs) in the European Union (EU) continue to scrutinize practices in the adtech sector for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection and...more
The Situation: Fashion ID, a German online clothing retailer, embedded on its website the Facebook "Like" button. When a user consults the website of Fashion ID, that user's personal data are transmitted to Facebook Ireland....more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine New York's new laws expanding consumer protection for data breaches, the D.C. Circuit's two rulings deepening the split regarding standing in data...more
In the absence of cookies-related guidance and enforcement by regulators against ordinary website publishers and operators, many e-commerce sites, online publishers and other website operators have taken a “wait and see”...more
Have you noticed recently that when you click on most websites a notice appears stating that the host uses cookies? Many are aware that on May 25, 2018, the GDPR (“Global Data Protection Regulation”) took effect. The law...more
The European Commission's proposed e-privacy regulation sets forth obligations on handling electronic communications and clarifies obligations for seeking consent for the use of cookies. Meant to bring the e-privacy directive...more