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Has the Battle Just Begun for Collective Action against Big Tech Companies?

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By contrast, courts in California and Canada have found a contractual jurisdiction and applicable law clause invalid as a matter of public policy in order to allow a class action privacy claim to proceed against Facebook. [6] The claimant sought to apply the cases on the tort of misuse of private information by analogy.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 2/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Wagner: European Conflict of Law 2021: The Challenge of Digital Transformation. This article provides an overview of developments in Brussels in the field of judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters from January 2021 until December 2021. In its judgment of February 2021, the Landgericht Frankfurt a.M.,