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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, […]

TechLaw10 is a 10-minute audio podcast update from U.S. lawyer Eric Sinrod (Duane Morris) and UK lawyer Jonathan Armstrong (Cordery) where they share insights on developments where technology intersects with the law in the EU and the U.S. Technethics selected the following list of podcasts whose topic is particularly relevant to Technology and Ethics. The list is updated […]

Author describes how Facebook argues individuals have no right to be forgotten. The full text is available at: http://www.theregister…

Conclusion from the article: “While in the Washington, D.C., the different stakeholders seemed to finally agree on a need for more transparancy for consumers, but were still unsure on whether to implement it through legislation, regulation, self regulation, or Do Not Track mechanisms that so far have no oversight nor enforcement of the user’s wishes, […]

Author describes European case law and trends discussing the right to be forgotten. The full text is available at: http://www.technologyreview…  

Author discusses French DPA’s decision ordering Google to block search results not only on .fr, but also on all other domains, such as for example, Google.com or Google.jp. The full text is available at http://www.slate.com…

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 […]