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Judge Janet Helson of King County Superior Court has granted final approval to Costco's $14m settlement of the Washington subject-line class action, Aaland v Costco Wholesale Corporation. The…
Judge Janet Helson of King County Superior Court has granted final approval to Costco's $14m settlement of the Washington subject-line class action, Aaland v Costco Wholesale Corporation. The…
Judge Janet Helson of King County Superior Court has granted final approval to Costco’s $14m settlement of the Washington subject-line class action, Aaland v Costco
PH Canada Company, which operates Pizza Hut in Canada, has agreed to pay C$500,000 after a CRTC investigation alleged it sent marketing messages without consent,
The Data & Marketing Association has asked the UK Government to remove the consent requirement for low-risk cookies and similar technologies. Its announcement, published on
France’s data protection regulator has closed its order against Solocal Marketing Services, the company it fined €900,000 in May 2025 for emailing and texting people
The maximum civil penalty for a CAN-SPAM violation will stay at $53,088 per email for the rest of 2026. The Federal Trade Commission confirmed in
A federal judge has sent three CEMA subject-line cases back to Washington state court. Nothing has been dismissed.
A Dutch court has rejected GDPR access claims brought by one individual against four retailers. It found the requests were part of a scheme to
H&M Fashion USA Inc. and its Swedish parent, H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, are facing a proposed class action in Washington over marketing emails that
Italy’s data protection authority, the Garante, has fined BBVA’s Italian branch €5.508 million after a customer kept receiving promotional messages despite opting out through the
China’s Measures for the Administration of Online Marketing of Financial Products come into force on 30 September 2026. Eight regulators issued them in April, led
Intuit is defending two proposed shareholder class actions in the Northern District of California. Both name the company, chief executive Sasan Goodarzi and chief financial
Indeed Canada Corp. has agreed to pay C$200,000 after a CRTC investigation alleged it kept emailing people who had opted out. The undertaking took effect
An Irish retailer has pleaded guilty to five charges over unsolicited marketing emails and failures in its unsubscribe process. Brown Thomas Arnotts Limited, which operates
A German court has rejected basic double opt-in logs as sufficient proof that a recipient consented to marketing emails, after an online marketing company relied
Italian email and digital services collective Autistici/Inventati experienced disruption to its mail services shortly after being added to a US sanctions list. On 26 August
Spain’s Guardia Civil has identified two men in connection with a Business Email Compromise attack that used details of an awarded public tender and a
Canada’s telecommunications regulator has told businesses to expect stronger enforcement of the country’s anti-spam law. In its latest CASL enforcement snapshot, the Canadian Radio-television and
The EU’s highest court has ruled that business email remains protected communication, even when it is sent through a company system and contains nothing personal.
Google’s proposed purchase of Spirit Airlines’ internal archive raises a much bigger question than employee privacy: can everything stored in a company’s mailboxes become saleable
Lithuania changed its B2B email marketing rules earlier this year, removing the requirement for prior consent in qualifying direct marketing to legal entities. The amendment
Spain’s data protection authority has fined Vodafone España €1.05 million after identity verification failures allowed an unauthorised third party to change a customer’s email address
CaixaBank fined €500,000 after customer service emails went to the wrong people. This happened earlier this year but flew under our radar and did not
Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) has addressed whether a bank can send lucky draw promotional emails to customers who have previously opted
Costco Wholesale will pay $14m to settle a class action alleging its marketing emails to Washington residents carried false or misleading subject lines, in violation
Italy’s data protection authority has fined Altroconsumo Edizioni S.r.l., the Milan-based publishing arm of Italy’s best-known consumer organisation, €280,000 for sending marketing emails without a
Italy’s data protection authority has fined US data broker Lusha Systems Inc. €2m and ordered it to stop processing, and delete, the personal data of
The European Data Protection Board wrote to the European Commission on 31 July asking it to closely assess whether a US Supreme Court ruling on
The US Federal Trade Commission, joined by the State of Utah and California acting through Los Angeles County Counsel, sued telehealth provider Hims & Hers
The DOJ has charged three Russians and two bulletproof hosting firms whose infrastructure powered phishing, fraudulent domains and ransomware. Enforcement is moving upstream.
The European Commission has published final guidelines on the AI Act’s Article 50 transparency obligations, which apply from 2 August. Here is what actually binds
Crunchyroll has renewed its attempt to push a proposed class action over its use of the Braze SDK out of the courtroom. On the evening
Since 19 June 2026, every UK organisation has been legally required to operate a formal data protection complaints process. The duty comes from the Data
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission concluded 275 electronic direct-marketing investigations in 2025, up 88 per cent, and issued 50 warning letters over unsolicited marketing.
