2018 was a year of adjustment for the financial services industry. We saw changes at key regulators that will have repercussions for years to come with the appointments of Kathy Kraninger and Jelena McWilliams as the respective heads of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation […]
Technology & Intellectual Property Update
GDPR Enforcement Update: French Data Protection Authority hits Google with a Historic 50 Million Euro Penalty
On January 21, 2019, the French data protection authority (“CNIL”) imposed a massive financial penalty of 50 Million euros (approximately 56.8 Million U.S. dollars) against Google for violating provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The penalty is the largest to date assessed under the GDPR and indicates the […]
Testing the Extraterritorial Reach of the GDPR
A European privacy regulator has provided insight into a key feature of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)—extraterritorial reach. Recall that Article 3(1) of the GDPR applies to EU-based organizations engaged in the processing of personal data (i.e., any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person) belonging to […]
Revisiting the Right of Publicity
Advertisements commonly include images of individuals, where the individuals may endorse a product, or merely just be incorporated into the advertisement. But such use of an individual’s image, name, or likeness in a commercial advertisement may implicate an individual’s right of publicity. Almost half of the states in the United […]
What Can You do to Help Protect Yourself From Data Breaches?
On November 30, 2018, Marriott revealed that its Starwood reservation system had been hacked exposing the personal data of approximately 500 million guests. It appears that not only credit card information was compromised but also passport numbers, birth dates, cell numbers, arrival and departure dates, etc. The Marriott data breach […]