Scholarly Articles & Institutional Publications

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 […]

On February 12, 2013, President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity.   The full text is available at https://www.whitehouse.gov…  

14 North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology 381 (2013) Abstract: “On January 23, 2012, the Supreme Court issued a landmark non-decision in United States v. Jones. In that case, officers used a GPS-enabled device to track a suspect’s public movements for four weeks, amassing a considerable amount of data in the process. Although ultimately […]

126 Harvard Law Review Forum 262 (2013) Abstract: “In his insightful article The Dangers of Surveillance, 126 HARV. L. REV. 1934 (2013), Neil Richards offers a framework for evaluating the implications of government surveillance programs that is centered on protecting “intellectual privacy.” Although we share his interest in recognizing and protecting privacy as a condition […]

98 Minnesota Law Review 62 (2013)   Abstract: “We are at the cusp of a historic shift in our conceptions of the Fourth Amendment driven by dramatic advances in surveillance technology. Governments and their private sector agents continue to invest billions of dollars in massive data-mining projects, advanced analytics, fusion centers, and aerial drones, all […]

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 […]

97 IOWA L. REV. 809, 822-24 (2012) Considering how individuals are sharing personal data, the authors suggest the creation of the “Privacy Data Guardian”, a new profession that manages Privacy Data Vaults. The article explains the technical specification of such approach, highlighting the fiduciary relationship between client and Guardian, and recommending that the Privacy Data […]

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, […]