Scholarly Articles & Institutional Publications

On December 9, 2014, twenty-three privacy authorities from around the world signed a joint letter (specifically addressed to Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Nokia, BlackBerry and Amazon.com but intended for all companies operating app marketplaces) urging companies to make links to privacy policies mandatory for all applications that collect personal information. The authorities acknowledge the fact that numerous […]

10 ISJLP 327 (2014) Abstract: “Revelations of massive aggregation of telephone call records by the NSA have led to widespread debate about the legality, effectiveness, and normative desirability of such broad-based government data collection. This article contends that mass collection of so-called “metadata” as a means to investigate associations impinges on the First Amendment right […]

On November 26, 2014, Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) published the Guidelines for the implementation of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ)’s recent decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12 (“right to be forgotten” decision), holding that data subjects have a right to obtain the de-listing of links appearing in the search results based on a person’s name. Most […]

On November 27, 2014, the European Parliament passed a resolution of 27 November 2014 “on supporting consumer rights in the digital single market” (2014/2973(RSP)). The resolution, which is not binding, contains several points (26 points to be precise), among which: – “Calls on the Member States and the Commission, … to address all existing barriers […]

Some considerations to the famous case “Vivi Down versus Google Video Italy” require to point out that the increasing evolution of technologies has determined on the one hand a certain crisis of “old” legal concepts (such as the connection between the territorial sovereignty of a State and its domestic jurisdiction), and on the other the […]

The authors describe the “explosion of new data privacy regulation across the Asia Pacific region in recent years”. The article shows an Asia-Pacific Data Privacy Regulatory Heat Map illustrating the differences in approach to regulation in Asia. The map compares Asian: 1) data management requirements; 2) direct marketing regulation; 3) data export control; and 4) […]

The Corte Supreme di Cassazione (The Italian court of last instance) made available on line the judgments of the last five years. The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) suggests that this publication – which includes also the name of parties and third parties involved in the litigation-  could violate the privacy of these parties and […]

Mr. Antonello Soro, President of the Italian data Protection Authority, warns against the privacy risk of trails by media: “Trials today seem to happen more in the newspapers and in the internet than in courtrooms, which has effect that we should reflect more about. It is a conquest of modern times having made trial public […]

From the document: “On 13 May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union acknowledged that under existing European data protection legislation, EU citizens have the right to request internet search engines such as Google, to remove search results directly related to them. This landmark ruling has sparked a lively and timely debate on […]

The Internet of Things (“IoT”) is “a scenario in which objects, animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.” (from: http://whatis.techtarget…)* IoT (example: wearable devices) raise personal data protection and privacy concerns. The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (independent advisory body on […]