Washoe County, Reno, in the State of Nevada, uses Ethereum blockchain to provide immutable digital record of wedding certificates. The service allows certified copies of marriage certificates to be emailed. It requires no special technology besides the ability to view a plain PDF. The county uses the services of a company called TitanSeal. At https://www.washoecounty.us… you […]
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On December 20, 2018, the new European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) and the BEREC Regulation entered into force. The EECC represents a major reform of the European telecom regulatory framework. The BEREC Regulation is an associated regulation concerning the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). They are both part of the Digital Single […]
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On December 28, 2018, the French Data Protection Agency, the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) published several principles to help companies comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) while transferring personal data to their commercial partners for electronic prospecting. Particularly, the CNIL highlights how: the data subject must give consent before […]
The DC Attorney General alleged in lawsuit Facebook’s ‘misleading privacy settings’ allowed it to harvest information from DC residents, in violation of violated the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act. The AG alleged that “nearly half of all District residents’ data to manipulation for political purposes during the 2016 election”. The AG stated Facebook failed to […]
In November 2018, a German local court, the Amtsgericht Diez, decided on a claim for immaterial damages under Art. 82.1, GDPR. According to this source, on May 25, 2018, Plaintiff received an e-mail in which Plaintiff’s consent to receive a newsletter was requested. An email of this sort is considered spam under German law and […]
On November 16, 2018, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted guidelines on the territorial application of the GDPR. Guidelines 3/2018 on the territorial scope of Regulation 2016/679/EU- Version for public consultation. The guidelines are now open to public consultation. The Guidelines aim at clarifying the territorial scope of the GDPR, in particular where the data […]
The new article 2-terdecies, of the Italian Privacy Code (introduced by Legislative Decree 101/2018), expressly rules on the data protection rights of the deceased. According the Italian Privacy Code, the rights of access, rectification, cancellation, limitation, portability, opposition and the rights relating to fully automated decisions relating to personal data concerning deceased subjects may be […]
On October 10, 2018, UK High Court blocked the class-action against Google over unlawful iPhone tracking allegations. The claimant, Richard Lloyd, alleged that, during 2011 and 2012, Google secretly tracked the internet activity of Apple iPhone users and then sold the data. The method by which Google was able to do this is generally referred […]
Expressing an opinion on a proposed bill aiming at substituting –in a 2015 Ministerial decree, Ministero dell’Interno del 23 dicembre 2015 – the words “father“ and “mother” in place of “parents or legal guardians” on the application for a minor’s ID, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati (the Italian Data Protection Authority) highlights how the […]
On September 30, 2018, the DOJ filed net neutrality lawsuit against the State of California, alleging that Senate Bill 822, a bill signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, unlawfully imposes burdens on the Federal Government’s deregulatory approach to the Internet. See more here. complaint here Francesca Giannoni-Crystal
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