On 25 June the Netherlands Consumer and Markets Authority (ACM) announced an investigation of fake accounts, fake reviews and fake likes....
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The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) is not only Germany’s competition law watch dog, it also has an eye on consumer protection issues....
On 19 June 2020, the Conseil d’État (‘the Council of State’), France’s supreme administrative court, issued a decision (in French)...
On 24 June, almost a month after the two-year anniversary of the entry into application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),...
No excuses! The Spanish data protection authority, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), has started to act against...
In the Freshfields insurtech team, we noted with interest the announcement by Lemonade last week that it is preparing to launch an IPO on...
A recent article in The Economist reported on a new low-privacy impact method of studying medical records by analysing data in situ. The...
Effective today, Thursday, June 18, 2020, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued an interim...
The revision of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and the accompanying guidelines is one of the many long-term reform...
The UK Information Commissioner's Office and the Alan Turing Institute have recently published their final guidance to help businesses...
This post is part of a series on contact tracing apps. You can read our introduction to the series here and get links to the other...
When in early 2019 Belgian MPs picked up the EU Commission's 2018 proposal for a digital services tax (DST), it did not get much...