1/21/2025 12:33:28 PM Freshfields Fintech: Our Predictions for 2025 By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop David Sewell Emma Probyn Rikki Haria Daphne van der Houwen Christine Simpson Eva Schneider Daniel Klingenbrunn Nariné Atamian Tristan Lockwood Noah Schmidt +9 more... Show less As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, we have crowdsourced predictions for the year ahead from the Freshfields global fintech team....
11/29/2023 8:39:43 PM The California Privacy Protection Agency Releases a First Draft of Automated Decisionmaking Opt-Out and Access Regulations By Christine Lyon Christine Chong The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has been steadily making strides to progress rulemaking under the California Consumer...
10/18/2023 6:42:44 PM California’s Delete Act Could Be Next Frontier Beyond CCPA By Christine Lyon Jackson Myers Freshfields’ Christine Lyon and Jackson Myers analyze California’s newly signed Delete Act and how it could affect state residents’...
5/4/2023 6:41:56 PM Data privacy litigation: CJEU brings clarity into non-material damages claims By Christoph Werkmeister Michael Schwaab Christian Sosna Individual actions for non-material damages following alleged infringements of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...
2/16/2023 7:49:33 PM Online platforms - withholding tax obligations not a breach of EU law (Airbnb v ITA) By Edward Buxton Executive Summary: The Court of Justice has held that Italian rules imposing withholding tax (WHT) and data-gathering obligations on...
11/24/2022 1:41:32 PM Public access to UBO registers across the EU ruled invalid By Silvia Van Dyck Eva Schneider Marcel Michaelis Jan Struckmann +1 more... Show less In the past years, the EU legislator has gone quite far in its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terrorist financing (CTF) efforts....
10/11/2022 1:44:37 PM Data privacy litigation: claiming non-material damages likely to become more difficult By Martin Mekat Christoph Werkmeister Robert Barton Christoph Clausen Dawid Ligocki +2 more... Show less Actions for non-material damages following (alleged) infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been on the rise...
8/18/2022 3:51:01 PM Call for evidence issued in Dame Margaret Whitehead’s UK medical devices bias review By Harriet Hanks In brief: The UK government-commissioned ‘Equity in medical devices: Independent review’ panel has launched a call for evidence to...
5/18/2022 9:31:37 PM Data Scraping Does It Again By Mili Astesiano Menachem Kaplan Timothy Howard Once again, hiQ wins the day in the continuous data scraping saga. In the most recent ruling, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
11/11/2021 7:41:35 PM UK Supreme Court rules representative action for group data protection claim was “doomed to fail” By Hannah Walker Gore Cat Greenwood-Smith Anushi Amin Xanthia Hargreaves Alice Thompson Ethan Lo +3 more... Show less The UK Supreme Court handed down a unanimous judgment yesterday in the high-profile Lloyd v Google case, ruling in Google’s favour that...
5/5/2021 12:09:21 PM WorkLife 2.0: Designing a litigation strategy to address group workforce claims By David Mendel Charles Smye As we have explored in our previous blogs in this series, where there is a shared basis for a claim on the facts, employees or workers...
3/9/2021 12:00:00 AM WorkLife 2.0: trends to look out for in group workforce claims in 2021 By Caroline Stroud David Mendel Catie Mulrennan Guy Huffen +1 more... Show less In our recent blog post, we predicted that, for a variety of reasons, the year ahead would likely see an increase in group workforce...