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Pixel Litigation Drives Transparency in Privacy Policies

LexBlog IP

Pixels, a piece of tracking software businesses use to assess the success of their advertising campaigns, are creating headaches for in-house counsel as decades-old laws are being revived by litigants. Unlike cookies, pixels cannot be easily blocked with privacy software.

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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 196: Vibert Jack on the Supreme Court’s Landmark Bykovets Internet Privacy Ruling

Michael Geist

The federal government has struggled to update Canadian privacy laws over the past decade, leaving the Supreme Court as perhaps the leading source of privacy protection. Vibert Jack is the litigation director of the BC Civil Liberties Association, which successfully intervened in the case.

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Legal Tug-Of-War: Protecting Privilege in Privacy Breach Disputes

IPilogue

Privacy breaches are becoming commonplace in today’s business landscape and cybersecurity is top of mind for many organizations— and for good reason. This situation is exacerbated by the risk of litigation, as lawsuits are a legitimate consequence of a privacy breach.

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On Deck In JPML: Baby Food, 23andMe Privacy, NCAA

IP Law 360

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's packed meeting Thursday in South Carolina will see the panel mulling consolidation of privacy litigation against 23andMe, claims of heavy metals in baby food, and scholarship-fixing claims by student athletes against the NCAA — and that's just for starters.

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Five Key Points from the Invasion of Privacy Lawsuit Against OpenAI

IP Watchdog

On September 6, OpenAI faced its second invasion of privacy lawsuit filed in the U.S. Here are five key allegations from the privacy suit against OpenAI. District Court for the District of Northern California, for allegedly stealing private information from millions of internet users.

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A Look Back at Canada’s Privacy Legislation in 2021

IPilogue

2021 was a transformational year for Canadian privacy legislation. Following the changes made to the Federal reforms to PIPEDA in 2020 , several provinces amended their privacy legislation to protect their constituents’ interests. Such privacy policies must describe how companies plan to use personal information.

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The Contents of Global Privacy Law Review, Volume 05, Issue 1, 2024

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The first litigations regarding data scraping for training of generative AI systems are starting now. This article reviews this protection in both the US and the EU/UK and analyses the impact of the existing data scraping case law in the ChatGPT issues and very recent litigations. LinkedIn Corp. LinkedIn case.

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