On October 20, 2015, the Irish Data Protection Commission declared that it will proceed to investigate the substance of the complaint brought by Schrems against Facebook “with all due diligence” after the European Court of Justice held the Safe Harbor Decision invalid. The investigation will commence under section 10 of the Irish Data Protection Act and it […]
The Weltimmo decision issued by the European Court of Justice on October 1, 2015 is probably one of the most important decisions on processing of data. It is so for three reasons. First, it defines the “establishment” in the most peculiar way, which has consequences in point of application of national data protection of the member states and […]
On June 1, 2015, an Italian court held that the publication on Facebook of a picture does not entail the owner’s loss of his copyright. Tribunale di Roma, decision no. 12076, June 1, 2015, (in Italian) at http://www.deiustitia.it… Open Pdf For more information, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Follow us on& Like us on
On September 21, 2015, the French Data protection Authority CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Information et des Libertés) rejected Google’s informal appeal against the formal notice (see here) requesting it to apply delisting on all the search engine’s domain names, not only “fr” but also .es; .co.uk; .com, etc. The CNIL noted that if the right to be forgotten is […]
On June 15, 2015, the Italian Competition Authority (Antitrust Authority) clarified that lawyers are allowed to use any website – being it managed by the lawyer himself or by third parties – to promote their services in Italy. Based on this decision, Italian lawyers should finally be able promote their legal services on social networks like, for […]
Italian municipalities cannot publish on their website the names of those who did not pay city taxes. After one municipality announced the intention of publishing the names of those who did not comply with their fiscal duties, the Garante della Privacy (the Italian Data Protection Authority) started an investigation and clarified that the publication […]
On August 18, 2015, the UK Information Commissioner Office (“ICO”) issued an enforcement notice against Google because it contravened the first and the third data protection principles by referencing to an article detailing the delisting of a link that followed a “request to be forgotten”. According to the ICO, Google contravened the third data protection […]
On July 1, 2015, the Rechtbank Den Haag (the Dutch District Court of the Hague) found the practice of the Dutch government to intercept Dutch law firms illegal. A Dutch law firm, Prakken d’Oliveira, accused the Dutch government of spying on the law firm’s privileged conversations. The CCBE intervened in the process to highlight the […]
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On July 28, 2015, the UK Supreme Court granted permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision in Vidal-Hall -v- Google. In March 2015, the Court of Appeal gave the leeway for UK data subjects to sue Google in England for cookies violations even if there was no pecuniary loss. More information on the ‘Safari Workaround’ […]
On June 25, 2015, the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) filed his opinion in the case 230/14, Weltimmo s.r.o. v Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (“Weltimmo”). According to the Advocate General, in order to determine which EU data protection law applies, authorities shall consider where the companies’ activity […]