This post was also written by Joshua Marker.

Following a year in which she repeatedly announced her intention to make mobile privacy a priority, California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed the first mobile privacy enforcement action against Delta Air Lines. The case, The People Of The State Of California v. Delta Air Lines, CGC-12-526741,

We have previously reported on the different requests and repeated questionnaires the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) has sent to Google over the past few months regarding the evaluation of Google’s compliance with applicable European Data Protection Regulation concerning its new integrated privacy policy, as well as the new integrated platform launched

We have previously reported that the French Data Protection Authority (DPA), the CNIL, had sent to Google 19 March 2012, a 12-page questionnaire divided in not less than 69 main questions on Google’s new privacy policy.

The CNIL has been designated by the Working Party 29 to evaluate the compliance to applicable data protection regulation

Google’s CEO, Larry Page, now belongs to the happy few who enjoy direct and regular contact with the CNIL’s president, Mrs. Falque-Pierrotin: he received on 19 March another letter from the French Data Protection Authority’s president pursuant to Google’s decision to launch its new integrated platform 1 March, despite the CNIL’s strong warning to postpone

A recent ICOMP Conference on ‘Data Protection and Profiling’ in Brussels focussed primarily on the implementation of Google’s new privacy policy on 1 March 2012. ICOMP provides a discussion forum for organisations and policy makers relating to the online marketplace aimed at supporting principles related to a transparent and competitive Internet.

There was some controversy

Reed Smith’s Co-Head of Data Privacy, Security & Management, Cynthia O’Donoghue, was interviewed by LexBlog earlier this week, following the recent outcome of the CNIL’s (the French data protection agency) investigation of Google’s new privacy policy. Cynthia outlined the reasons for the CNIL’s preliminary findings, stressing that its failure to properly incorporate EU data protection

February 2012 will last as a milestone of an unprecedented fight between the Working Party 29, which comprises the European Data Protection Agencies, and Google.

Google has highly publicised the forthcoming launch of an integrated platform that is deemed to allow a better tracking of the user’s personal data and in particular to advertise with

This post was also written by Chris Cwalina and Amy Mushahwar.

We’ve been busy here in Washington with two seminal privacy reports released within a span of two weeks.  At Reed Smith, our interdisciplinary team of former government officials, former in-house attorneys, class action litigators and engineers (in the US and internationally) are reviewing the