29 Jul, 2022 Sustainable fashion - UK's CMA publishes update on its Green Claims investigations By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor We have known since last year that the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) will be investigating environmental claims (so called 'green...
27 Jul, 2022 Finally! Please join us for the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance Conference: Global Advertising in an Age of Crisis and Change By Brinsley Dresden After a two-year delay ironically imposed by a global crisis, we are pleased to announce that our Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance...
26 Jul, 2022 Loss of Personal Data Health Medical Records and Breach of Data Protection Principle 4(1) (DPP4(1)) In the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (“PDPO”) By Angus Forsyth There has been a timely reminder that the Data Protection Principles are meaningful and require observance. They all have teeth. ...
25 Jul, 2022 Food Labelling in Canada: New Food Product Innovation Initiative Changes By Jaclyne Reive On July 6, 2022, the Government of Canada made several changes to the Food and Drugs Regulations (“FDR”) and the Safe Food for Canadians...
19 Jul, 2022 Sign up for GALA’s webinar: Keeping Children safe online – what we can learn from the games industry By Bryony Long Nick Allan Lee Ramsay Growing up in a digital world means being online is becoming essential - whether for education or to play the latest online game. But...
18 Jul, 2022 Changes to Canadian Natural Health Products Labelling Requirements By Jaclyne Reive Following an increase in the use of natural health products (“NHPs”) among Canadians, Health Canada recently released the “Regulations...
14 Jul, 2022 Will the UK's controversial Online Safety Bill be salvaged, stripped for parts or scrapped altogether? By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Last week, the government's Online Safety Bill was the jewel in the crown of its legislative agenda... but a week is along time in...
12 Jul, 2022 FTC Starts the Engine on Car Sales Fees and Advertising Rulemaking, but Other Rulemaking Faces Major Questions By Len Gordon Michael Munoz The FTC is off to the races with another proposed rulemaking. On June 23, the FTC, by a 4-1 vote, issued a notice of proposed rulemaking...
12 Jul, 2022 New Mandatory Front-of-Package Nutrition Symbol for Certain Food Products in Canada By Jaclyne Reive Front-of-Package Labeling Requirements On June 30th the Federal Minister of Health announced new regulations relating to a mandatory...
11 Jul, 2022 District Court to New York Attorney General: “No Personal Jurisdiction Piggybacking” By Len Gordon By Leonard L. Gordon & Peter Kim This week, a New York district court, in FTC v. Quincy Bioscience Holding Co., granted an individual...
11 Jul, 2022 Financial Penalties Upon Influencers for Lack of Cooperation With the Polish Authority By Ewa Skrzydlo-Tefelska Marta Kowalczuk-Kedzierska Recently, Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (“OCCP”) has imposed financial penalties on influencers against whom it...
07 Jul, 2022 Will the UK's Online Safety Bill be preserved, will it be enhanced, or will it go down with Boris Johnson's (premier)ship? By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor The House of Commons DMCS Select Committee has issued a report on the Online Safety Bill, calling for amendments to protect the integrity...
05 Jul, 2022 Advocate General Pitruzzella Delivered an Opinion on the Right of Access to Personal Data Under Article 15 GDPR By Laura Liguori This article has been written in collaboration with Claudia Martorelli On June 9, 2022, the Advocate General of the European Court of...
05 Jul, 2022 Use of a Trademark by an Online Service Provider: AG Szpunar’s Opinion in the Louboutin/Amazon Case By Chiara Marchisotti This article has been written in collaboration with Marianna Riedo Advocate General Maciej Szpunar issued his opinion in Joint Cases No....
05 Jul, 2022 Google Analytics: The Italian Data Protection Authority Banned Processing Without the Implementation of Safeguards for Transferring Personal Data By Laura Liguori Eleonora Curreli This article has been written in collaboration with Giulio Novellini On June 9, 2022, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per...
05 Jul, 2022 The Italian Data Protection Authority Issues a Controversial Decision Against Uber B.V. And Uber Technologies Inc. By Laura Liguori Eugenio Foco On March 24, 2022, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali – “Garante”) issued a...