Scholarly Articles & Institutional Publications

Topics: Lawyers’ Advertising Rules in Italy “The principle that permeates the new rules [on advertisement] is … that lawyers are allowed to give information about the characteristics of their practice, but the choice to open (to advertisement) does not mean that “commercial advertisement” is allowed – [the new rules] maintain a negative view of lawyers’ […]

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Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 174 July 26, 2013 The Italian Privacy Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali) issued Guidelines on Spamming. The Authority had already issued rules on spamming (General Rules May 29, 2003) but those rule were based on a privacy law (Law December 31, 1996 no. 675) that was substituted by D.lgs. […]

From the Press Release: “The European Commission is putting into place new rules on what exactly telecoms operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should do if their customers’ personal data is lost, stolen or otherwise compromised. The purpose of these ‘technical implementing measures’ is to ensure all customers receive equivalent treatment across the EU in […]

Conclusion of the Article: “New conflicts in information privacy loom ahead for the US and the EU due to the Proposed Data Protection Regulation of the EU. This document, which creates directly binding law for all EU Member States, alters the current equilibrium achieved under the Data Protection Directive of 1995. The Directive stimulated a […]

72 Maryland Law Review 335 (2013) Ohio State Public Law Working Paper 204 Abstract In its draft Data Protection Regulation, the European Union has announced a major new economic and human right – the right to data portability (‘RDP’). The basic idea of the RDP is that an individual would be able to transfer his […]

3 International Data Privacy Law 74 (2013) From the article Big Data—which may be understood as a more powerful form of data mining that relies on huge volumes of data, faster computers, and new analytic techniques to discover hidden and surprising correlations—challenges international privacy laws in several ways: it casts doubt on the distinction between […]

The Author’s Abstract: “This Issue Brief explores an oft-neglected irony in international e-discovery: the rationales used by courts to compel discovery against foreign parties embroiled in litigation in U.S. courts may contradict courts’ reasoning when compelling discovery against U.S. parties engaged in litigation overseas. U.S. courts often grant petitions for discovery, increasingly electronic in form, […]

The paper deals with “the fundamental issues concerning trans-border data flows and their consequences on applicable law.” It “consider[s] three different cases decided by the Italian data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali).” The three decisions are the following: decision issued by the Italian DPA on 24 May 2006, doc. web n. 1299063 (see also: January 18 2006, […]

(2012) 28(3) Computer Law and Security Review 296 ABSTRACT: Mandatory data breach notification laws have been a significant legislative reform regarding unauthorized disclosures of personal information by public and private sector organizations. These laws originated in the state-based legislatures of the United States during the last decade and have subsequently garnered worldwide legislative interest. We contend […]