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On December 11, 2025, the CNIL fined an Israeli company €1 million for failing to comply with its GDPR obligations after providing personalized advertising services to an EU music-streaming platform. The service helped the platform to personalize and optimize marketing campaigns to promote its streaming services.

The CNIL held that the GDPR applied to the

On December 2, Greystar agreed to a $24 million settlement over allegations it misled renters by omitting mandatory fees from advertised monthly rents.  This settlement underscores the FTC’s continuing scrutiny of “junk fees” and signals that the FTC may pursue rulemaking requiring greater transparency in rental fee advertising. 

On December 16, 2025, the EU Commission unveiled its proposal for the Biotech Act.  The proposal, which is only the first part of a bigger initiative for regulating biotechnologies, focuses primarily on the health sector.  The Commission took the opportunity to broadly revise the Clinical Trial Regulation (“CTR”) – see our blog post here

On November 12, 2025, the European Commission launched two public consultations that could significantly reshape EU product compliance rules. To participate, stakeholders – including businesses, consumer groups, and industry associations – are invited to complete the Commission’s online questionnaires, available until February 4, 2026.

Last week, the Third Circuit affirmed dismissal of a putative class action asserting that defendant Quest Diagnostics violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) and the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (“CMIA”) by employing a website pixel to track and collect data about their website activity for advertising purposes.  See Cole v. Quest Diagnostics