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 […]
European Court of Justice — Joined cases C-141/12 and C-372/12, Judgment of 17 July 2014 Topic Data Protection – Directive 95/46/EC and definition of personal data The European Court of Justice provided further directions on the definition of personal data for the purposes of EU law. The ECJ ruled that the legal analysis contained in […]
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 […]
From the WP29’s press release “The European data protection authorities, assembled in the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) at its Plenary meeting of 16 and 17 September, adopted an opinion on the Internet of Things (IoT). Drawing the attention on the privacy and data protection challenges raised by “smart things” which are gradually entering our daily […]
For the first time after the ECJ’s decision of last May (“right to be forgotten” decision) a European court has condemned Google in a case concerning the “right to be forgotten”. On September 16, 2014, the TGI (Tribunal de Grande Instance) — court of first instance of general jurisdiction in Paris — issued a decision […]
Google is holding a series of meetings in Europe. Meetings are public and open for registration. More information here. Listen here for example to the recording of the Advisory Council’s meeting held in Rome 9 September 2014.
Europe is facing the challenges of implementing the European Court of Justice’s recent decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”. Following the decision, search engines were submerged by requests for removal (see article) and were left with the difficult task of balancing the public right to information and the private […]
Conclusion form the article: “The outcome of the current review of Directive 95/46/EC – and of the EU legal framework for data protection more in general – is not yet entirely clear, but its main direction now seems irreversible and well beyond the point of no return. In any case, a few conclusions may be […]
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, […]