CNIL fined Hopital Prive de la Loire EUR 500,000 after a 2025 breach exposed 524,867 patients, citing missing VPN and multi-factor authentication. What the ruling sets as the new floor for remote access to health data.
Ann Pope filed a GBP 2 billion opt-out claim against Apple's tracking prompt on September 3, the same design Germany ordered redesigned weeks earlier.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined the Health Service Executive 645,000 euro on September 2, 2026, not for a cyberattack but for patient records left to rot in disused bathrooms, a shipping container, and derelict buildings, a case that extends GDPR enforcement into physical archive management.
The EU General Court dismissed Opera's case seeking to force Microsoft Edge into DMA gatekeeper status, citing Edge's 5.8 percent EU browser share against Chrome's 59 percent. The ruling is the first judicial test of a DMA non-designation decision and sets a real market-share bar for future challenges.
US Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected a Google ad-tech breakup on September 2, 2026, opting for behavioral remedies instead. For EU publishers and DMA compliance teams, the ruling raises a real question about Brussels' own ad-tech case against Google.
The EU Data Act already bans cloud switching obstacles and caps egress fees at direct cost, with an outright fee ban from 12 January 2027 and a 30-day porting window.
The US Justice Department filed its first-ever brief in an AI training copyright case, backing OpenAI against the New York Times with a competition argument EU publishers should study.
A US judge let Google keep AdX, ordering interoperability rules over a forced sale. Google already offered to sell AdX in a separate EU case - a gap worth watching.
The FTC and 22 states say Amazon secretly ran a phantom bidder in its ad auctions for seven years. Here is what the complaint alleges, and what Amazon says back.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox Very Large Online Platforms. The search-engine label, not the fine, is the real precedent.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic on August 28 over the same torrenting conduct it already settled for 1.5 billion dollars in the Bartz book case. Here is what changes for buyers of Claude.
California's legislature voted 39-0 to exempt Linux and other open-source systems from a law requiring operating systems to verify user age from 2027.
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