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According to press released on April 28, 2015, the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) opened for public comments on the Internet of Things (IoT) to gain comments useful to draft rules and set up protection measures in this area. In particular, the DPA seeks comments on how to provide information to individuals and gain their consent, how to develop […]

Following the Statement of Objections to Google sent by the EU Commission on April 15, 2015, the French Senate is discussing “search neutrality” amendments. According to James Waterworth, the ‘search neutrality’ amendments would be introduced in the ‘Loi Macron’, an economic reform bill, and they would oblige search engines to avoid discrimination toward their competitors’ services. However, […]

On April 28, 2015, several major tech companies (e.g., Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo) together with some national associations (e.g., Transatlantic Business Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) sent a letter to Chttp://www.technethics.com/ongress urging it to support the bipartisan Judicial Redress Act of 2015, H.R. 1428, which would extend Privacy Act remedies to citizens of […]

On April 15, 2015, the EU Commission sent a Statement of Objections to Google alleging that the company infringed EU antitrust rules. According to the Commission, Google abused its dominant position in the markets for general internet search services in the European Economic Area (EEA) by systematically favouring its own comparison shopping product in its […]

On February 22, 2015, the Italian court of Termini Imerese issued a notable order addressing the issue of electronic evidence authentication. The topic has raised some concerns in the past as the applicable law on the governmental use of digital resources – Codice dell’Amministrazione Digitale (d.lgs 7 marzo 2005 n. 82) – does not clarify […]

On April 22 and 23, 2015, the House of Representatives passed, with strong bipartisan support, two bills on cybersecurity, the “Protecting Cyber Networks Act” (H.R. 1560) and the “National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015” (H.R. 1731). H.R. 1560 was passed by the House on April 22, 2015, with 307-116 votes. According to the House’s […]

On April 20, 2015, the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct publicly admonished and ordered additional education on the ethical use of social media to a Texas judge that posted on her Facebook page regarding matters pending before her court. According to the decision, the judge maintained a public Facebook page set up with the […]

On April 10, 2015, an Arkansas attorney filed a motion for sanctions against Defendant City of Forth Smith after receiving from Defendant a hard drive in response to a discovery request, which allegedly contained malware. According to the brief supporting the motion for sanctions, Plaintiff’s counsel sent the hard drive to an IT expert to […]

  In Formal Opinion 2015-3, the Committee on Professional Ethics of NY City Bar opined on the increasing recurrence of internet scams directed to lawyers Digest of the opinion: “An attorney who discovers that he is the target of an Internet-based trust account scam does not have a duty of confidentiality towards the individual attempting […]

On April 3, 2015, the Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Texas found that the social media accounts are property of the company’s bankruptcy estate, and ordered the former owner to transfer immediately administrative privileges to the reorganized debtor. With the opinion, the court addressed issues arising from the refusal of the former owner of […]