INTERNATIONAL DATA PROTECTION

Patricia Moloney Figliola, Casey L. Addis & Thomas Lum, U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom, Issues, Policy and Technology

Date 01/03/2011.

From the article’s summary: “The openness and the freedom of expression allowed through blogs, social networks, video sharing sites, and other tools of today’s communications technology has proven to be an unprecedented and often disruptive force in some closed societies. Governments that seek to maintain their authority and control the ideas and information their citizens […]

Oreste Pollicino, Marco Bassanini, Internet Law in the Era of Transnational Law

Date 01/01/2011.

Abstract from the article: “Since its birth, the Internet has usually been considered as a threat to the traditional conception of sovereignty as power of a state to regulate the interactions taking place within its territory. The extraterritorial nature of the Internet has definitely contributed to the globalization of legal orders, by requiring them to […]

Autorità Garante della Privacy (Italian Data Protection Authority) decision issued on November 4, 2010, doc. web n. 1771838

Date 11/04/2010.

Topic: Preliminary check: personal data treatment related to a system to evaluate employees Verifica preliminare: trattamento di dati personali connesso ad un sistema di valutazione dei dipendenti “Il trattamento in questione, individuato nei termini sopra descritti, in base alle vigenti disposizioni in materia di protezione dei dati personali dovrà avvenire con modalità rispettose dei diritti e […]

Autorità Garante della Privacy (Italian Data Protection Authority) decision issued on October 15, 2010, doc. web n. 1759972

Date 10/15/2010.

Topic: Google Street View: cars shall be identifiable Google Street View: le auto dovranno essere riconoscibili L’Autorità Garante della Privacy: “dispone, ai sensi degli artt. 143, comma 1. lett. b) e 154, comma 1, lett. c) del Codice, che Google Inc. entro trenta giorni dalla notificazione del presente provvedimento: a) provveda a designare un proprio rappresentante stabilito nel […]

Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, FAQs

Date 07/12/2010.

FAQs in order to address some issues raised by the entry into force of the EU Commission Decision 2010/87/EU of 5 February 2010 on standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries under Directive 95/46/EC   “The following FAQs, prepared by the Article 29 Working Party, intend to […]

European Commission Decision C(2010)

Date 07/12/2010.

Commission Decision on standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries under Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council   From the Decision: “The scope of this Decision should be limited to establishing that the clauses which it sets out may be used by a […]

Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, Opinion 1/2010 on the concepts of “controller” and “processor”

Date 02/16/2010.

From the Executive Summary: “The concept of data controller and its interaction with the concept of data processor play a crucial role in the application of Directive 95/46/EC, since they determine who shall be responsible for compliance with data protection rules, how data subjects can exercise their rights, which is the applicable national law and […]

European Commission Decision 2010/87/EU

Date 02/05/2010.

European Commission Decision 2010/87/EU on standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries under Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council Official Journal of the European Union L39/5, February 12, 2010   Whereas of the decision: “(2) Article 26(2) of Directive 95/46/EC provides that Member States may […]