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On September 27, 2016, the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers of Europe (CISPE) announced the publication of the Data Protection Code of Conduct for Cloud Infrastructures Services. The CISPE comprises several major European cloud infrastructure providers. The code of conduct provides that the certified cloud infrastructure providers: will process and store data exclusively within the EU/EEA […]

On August 25, 2016, WhatsApp issued a statement informing its users that the application’s terms and privacy policy was updated, which was also a consequence of WhatsApp’s joining Facebook. Allegedly WhatsApp wanted to modify the privacy policy to allow users to “communicate with businesses”.  WhatsApp notified all users –with the latest supported versions of the […]

The Italian Intellectual Property Code (Law 633/1941) protects the rights of someone who makes a material investment to gather and organize the content of a database. Article 102bis and ter: Rights of a database developer – user’s rights and obligations. An Italian Court recently held that in order for an investment in a database to receive protection, it needs not to […]

The number of drones in Ireland is growing fast. Their increased use brings up a range of legal and commercial issues. In this note the authors discuss “two recently implemented statutory instruments, the Regulation of Drones Bill and the guidelines issued by the Data Protection Commissioner regarding the use of drones to comply with the […]

On July 20, 2016, the French data protection agency (CNIL) sent Microsoft a formal notice about alleged excesses in personal data collection and user tracking by Windows 10 operating system. Considering the seriousness of the deficiencies and the number of people affected (more than ten million users of Windows 10 in France), the CNIL sent […]

On July 14, 2016, the EU Commission sent two Statements of Objections to Google and Alphabet (Google’s parent company). With the first Statement, the EU Commission reaffirmed its preliminary conclusion that “Google has abused its dominant position by systematically favouring its comparison shopping service in its search result pages”. With the second Statement, the Commission […]

On July 27, 2016, the Government of Canada released a Cloud Adoption Strategy for public comments. Canada will leverage a new IT service-delivery model, aiming at maintaining good IT services in a time of growing demand for online services and a timely access to accurate information. The document focuses on: the Right Cloud adoption strategy. The document approaches […]

On July 19, 2016, the consultation on the EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) launched by the French data protection agency “CNIL” closed. The consultation concerned four main topics: Data Protection Officers, data portability, Privacy Impact Assessment, and certification. The contributions collected are available here. For more information, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Follow us on& Like us on […]

  On April 2016, the Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO) issued the Annual Track 2016, a research that assesses the level of awareness of UK population of its information/privacy rights. According to the document, the most important social issue for UK citizens is health care. Only 15% is concerned with protection of personal information. And the younger generations seem […]

On June 24, 2016, the British Information Commissioner Officer (ICO), issued a press release in consideration of the recent referendum results. “The Data Protection Act remains the law of the land irrespective of the referendum result. If the UK is not part of the EU, then upcoming EU reforms to data protection law would not […]