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 […]
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 […]
Cybercrime and security is a topic that is rarely out of the news and new EU rules on cyber-security are making their way through the EU legislative pipeline. But what has the UK been doing about the fight against cybercrime, notably hacking? The term “hacking” is a colloquial one and doesn’t exist under UK legislation […]
The author discusses the worldwide access via search engines to online information and assesses the long-term effects of the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”: “In the light of the above, the future EU regulation should consider the peculiar nature of search engines as data controllers. It should introduce an ad hoc legal provision, which […]
The US Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it had agreed to settle its investigation into TRUSTe; a significant US provider of privacy certifications. TRUSTe offered seals which tried to reassure consumers that a business’s privacy practices were in order. They are used particularly by multi-national businesses to assist them in complying with the US-EU […]
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) […]
Nathan M. Crystal & Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, Reconciling US and EU approaches to cloud contracts, 22 PL&B International, October 2014, Issue 131, www.privacylaws.com Read the article For information: Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Follow us on& Like us on
The recent decision of the European Court of Justice in Google Spain SL v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos is a good opportunity to compare the obligation of search engines with reference to the search results in Europe and United States. The ruling of May 13, 2014, holds that all European citizens have a […]
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 […]