Legal & Compliance

Organizations that rely on alternative data should ensure that their diligence process includes questions regarding the EU data transfer mechanisms used by the data brokers, and their sources, and obtain contractual assurances that the transfer was legal under all applicable laws.

The new iOS 14 will allow consumers to limit how much location information they have to share and provides users with more options to restrict what information they have to share on apps.

The legal battle between HiQ and Microsoft continues, with HiQ filing a brief last week requesting the Supreme Court deny LinkedIn Corp’s petition for a writ of certiorari in the prior Ninth Circuit ruling.

On April 30th 2020, the CNIL published its guidance for “commercial prospecting” practices, i.e. scraping public websites and collecting personal information of individuals in order to sell it on to marketing companies conducting targeting campaigns.

The current precedents in China tend to protect original data developers, but there is no consensus if the capture or reuse of data necessarily constitute unfair competition.

Ciaran Ryan, COO at Eagle Alpha, and Peter Greene, Partner at Lowenstein Sandler, discussed legal ramifications and contractual clauses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.