A new Bill, introduced on 28 January 2019, will impose liability on social media companies to provide the option for users of their platforms to have all their Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) permanently deleted from the company’s databases. Consumers’ PII must also be excluded from sale, once the user has closed their account.The Bill supplements...Read More

California’s Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, has recently announced a $935,000 settlement with health insurance company Aetna (“The Company”). In July 2017, the Connecticut-based company mailed out letters to 1,991 Californians, visibly revealing that the recipients were taking medication for HIV. According to a news release issued by the Attorney General’s Office, the “incredibly sensitive information”...Read More

Facebook's data privacy movements - a major turn-aound? The fact that Facebook has become the most powerful social network in history surely cannot be questioned. But Mark Zuckerberg now seems to be saying Facebook's future lies somewhere else.Read More