Texas Ethic Opinion 661 Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas Topic: Use of competing lawyer or law firm’s name as keyword in advertising services offered by search-engine companies Conclusion of the Committee: “A lawyer does not violate the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct by simply using the name of […]
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Public comments on TAR. On August 2016, the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention (WG1) published the TAR Case Law Primer. The document discusses more than 30 decisions from state, federal, and foreign courts and administrative agencies addressing the use of Technology-Assisted Review (TAR) in civil discovery. The WG1 encourages public comment on […]
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 […]
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 […]
According to this source and hearing transcripts on two motions to withdraw, Ovie Carroll, the director for the Cybercrime Lab at the Department of Justice, urged the federal judges present at a seminar to “use the TOR network to protect their personal information on their computers, like work or home computers, against data breaches, and the like”. Tor […]
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On June 29, 2016, the Belgian Court of Appeal overturned the Brussels Court of First Instance’s decision against Facebook. The Brussels Court of First Instance had found Facebook liable for violation of Belgian privacy law for using cookies to track users who did not consent to the processing of their personal data and non users. Facebook was fined […]
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 June 13, 2016, Schrem’s website “Europe v Facebook”(website collecting information regarding class actions against Facebook) released a press update according to which the United States government asked the Irish High Court to join as amicus curiae in the case between Max Schrems and Facebook. “The US government likely wants to defend its surveillance laws before the European […]
On July 22, 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) released Opinion 5/2016 on the review of the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC). This Opinion focuses on the issues specifically requested by the EU Commission. Particularly, the EDPS suggested that “a new proposal on ePrivacy should guarantee confidentiality of communications, offer clarity and complement the General Data […]