On December 15, 2015, the EU Commission announced that it found an agreement with the EU Council and the Parliament, following the trilogue meetings. Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality said, ” Citizens and businesses will profit from clear rules that are fit for the digital age, that give strong protection and […]
What is this all about? The EU is in the process of reforming its existing data protection rules. These reforms have been moving slowly through the EU legislative pipeline but we seem now to be getting closer to a final agreement. Even though the expected implementation date of these rules is still likely to be […]
On June 15, 2015, Ministers in the Justice Council have sealed a General Approach on the Commission Data Protection Regulation proposal. According to the Commission’s memo, the general approach on the Data Protection Regulation includes agreement on the following main topics: One continent-one law – the Regulation will establish a single set of rules on data […]
On December 18, 2014, the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued an order with which it confirmed that the right to be forgotten must be balanced with the public interest to read recent important facts. However, in addition to confirming the need to balance the right to be forgotten with the freedom of expression, the order […]
What is this all about? The EU is in the process of reforming its existing data protection rules. Unfortunately these reforms are currently subject to significant delay. But despite this set-back Cordery strongly recommends that businesses keep an eye firmly on the ball as the reforms go well beyond an upgrade – good planning ahead […]
2014 TPRC Conference Paper Abstract This paper critically assesses the character of European (Union’s) privacy law and policy in the field of online media and electronic communications. Contrary to current understanding, this field of law is more fragmented and ill-developed than is often assumed, in particular by those discussing privacy law and policy in an […]
On February 20, 2015, the Italian DPA approved the protocol that the authority will carry out in order to verify Google’s compliance with the requirements set forth with decision 3295641 to protect the privacy of Google’s service users in Italy. The actual content of the approved protocol was not published, but according to the Italian […]
Google have reached an agreement with a former Morgan Stanley banker who was a victim of one of the most extreme campaigns of trolling in recent memory. Daniel Hegglin was subjected to a vicious campaign of false abuse by an internet troll who had been directing abuse at the banker since 2011. Mr Hegglin had […]
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 […]
Datagate, new technologies, customers profiling and “big data”, user consent, data protection in non-EU countries, damage to reputation, right to be forgotten, web fury, social media, web violence and cyberbullying – these are the privacy hot issues according to the President of the Italian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”). In September 2014, Mr. Antonello Soro, DPA President, […]