On June 4, 2015 the Spanish court of Pontavedra (Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra) held that a father cannot publish his child’s pictures on Facebook without mother’s permission Inside a divorce proceeding a court had granted Father the right to publish his son’s pictures on Facebook. Mother appealed and the Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra reversed. See […]
On July 1, 2015, the United Nations appointed several special Rapporteurs. The mandates will least for the next three years. Among others, the following officers were appointed: Ms. Mónica Pinto, as special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. To protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, the special rapporteur will monitor that the judiciary […]
On June 12, 2015, in the Bundestag (German legislative body) a bill on data retention (Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Einführung einer Speicherpflicht und einer Höchstspeicherfrist für Verkehrsdaten) was introduced. It requires companies to store (in Germany) traffic data for a specified amount of time to allow enforcement agencies to request it for repression of terrorism. However, due to strong […]
On June 23, 2015, the French senate formally voted the Loi Renseignement (see here). The law has been named “Le Patriot Act” because – in the wake of the terrorist attack killing 17 people in Paris (see here) – it gives mass surveillance powers to the French Government. On June 24, 2015, the law was voted also by the […]
On June 22, 2015, the Supreme Court affirmed, in a 5-4 decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal’s conclusion that the law must give hotel owners a right to object to police demanding to see their registries at any given hour of the day. The Court struck as facially unconstitutional Los Angeles Municipal Code § […]
The European Court of Justice is called to decide whether server logs shall be considered as ‘personal data’ under the EU’s Directive 95/46/EC. Case C-582/14. Server logs are automatically created and typically set behind webpages to record which pages have been viewed, when, and by which dynamic IP address. The IP address is the number […]
According to this source, “Facebook is experimenting with technology that can recognize faces in photographs even if they are hidden or obstructed”. Follow us on& Like us on
On June 16, 2015, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) adopted an opinion on the utilization of drones for all civil purposes. According to WP29, several privacy risks may arise in relation to the processing of data carried out by the equipment on-board a drone. “Such risks can range from a lack of transparency of […]
On June 4, 2015, the Minnesota District Court dismissed a data breach class action for lack of constitutional standing because the plaintiffs did not allege injury in fact. Carlsen v. GameStop. In this class action, Plaintiffs subscribed to a videogame magazine accessible through the web. The terms of service for the online subscription included a privacy […]
As we previously reported (see here) on May 7, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that the controversial surveillance program according to which the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting Americans’ phone records was not authorized under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act (ACLU v. Clapper, 2015 U.S. […]