Scholarly Articles & Institutional Publications

According to the document’s foreword the consumers’ privacy framework in the United States is strong but lacks a statements of basic privacy principles applying to commercial worlds, and a commitment of all stakeholders to address consumer data privacy issues. To address these issues the administration offered Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World. At the […]

64 STAN. L. REV. ONLINE 88 Author discusses the right of oblivion as codified in the proposed data protection regulation. The full text is available at: http://www.stanfordlawreview…

On January 25, 2012: “The European Commission…proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU’s 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe’s digital economy. Technological progress and globalisation have profoundly changed the way our data is collected, accessed and used. In addition, the 27 EU Member States have implemented the 1995 rules […]

Computer Law & Security Review 27 (2011) Abstract from the article: “This study considers the scope of the injunction a court may issue against an intermediary service provider with a view to preventing or terminating an infringement, particularly of an intellectual property right. The matter is studied in the light of the aim shared by […]

Conclusion from the article: “Access to information and protection of privacy are both rights intended to help the individual in making government accountable. Most of the time, the two rights complement each other. However, there are conflicts—for example, privacy laws often are improperly invoked by governments. And there are cases where the conflicts are legitimate. […]

By Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission “Summary: This guidance provides the Division of Corporation Finance’s views regarding disclosure obligations relating to cybersecurity risks and cyber incidents.”   The full text is available at http://www.sec.gov… Open pdf

The research investigates “the feasibility of combining publicly available online social network data with off‐the‐shelf face recognition technology for the purpose of large‐scale, automated, peer‐based 1. individual re‐identification, online and offline 2. “accretion” and linkage of online, potentially sensitive, data to someone’s face in the offline world” The full text is available at: http://www.heinz.cmu…

1 Int’l Data Priv. L. 81, 81 (2011) The article discusses the three major reports on privacy released almost simultaneously at the end of 2010 in the European Union and USA: “The first, published on 4 November, came from the European Commission, ‘A Comprehensive Approach on Personal Data in the European Union’. The following month […]

From the article’s summary: “The openness and the freedom of expression allowed through blogs, social networks, video sharing sites, and other tools of today’s communications technology has proven to be an unprecedented and often disruptive force in some closed societies. Governments that seek to maintain their authority and control the ideas and information their citizens […]

Abstract from the article: “Since its birth, the Internet has usually been considered as a threat to the traditional conception of sovereignty as power of a state to regulate the interactions taking place within its territory. The extraterritorial nature of the Internet has definitely contributed to the globalization of legal orders, by requiring them to […]