On 16 January 2015, The Italian Data Protection Authority (the “Authority”) published a “video tutorial”, a guideline document and a “frequently answered questions list (FAQ)” on its website about information policies and consent requirements for the use of cookies, that further explains the rational for its decision no. 229: “Individualization of simplified modalities for the […]
On November 26, 2014, Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (“WP29”) issued a document WP 226 (14/EN) to create a procedure enabling companies to: (i) frame transfers from different EU Member States; (ii) obtain a coordinated position of the competent DPAs regarding the proposed contract; and (iii) decide in particular if the contract is in […]
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The report reviews existing mutual legal assistance (“MLA”) laws and policies around the world, and proposes a number of reforms. The full text is available at https://globalnetworkinitiative….
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On January 2015, the World Economic Forum released a new framework designed to help businesses identify cyber threats and build potential quantification models to calculate the impact of these threats. The framework is called “cyber value-at-risk”. It is proposed with the report ‘Partnering for Cyber Resilience: Towards the Quantification of Cyber Threats’ and it was […]
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On November 12, 2014, the French data protection agency (“CNIL”) issued a new compliance pack (pack de conformité) for the insurance sector. The compliance pack is a new tool that the CNIL developed to aid professionals working in the insurance field in the application of the French data protection law. The pack de conformité is […]
Google issued its report on the requests for removal pursuant to the “right to be forgotten”. Period considered: May 29, 2014 to current. Here are some interesting points: Google received almost 200,000 requests “to be forgotten”, evaluated almost 700,000 urls and removed the 59.8% of urls. French are those who requested to be forgotten the […]
Author discusses whether EU data protection law applies to home CCTV cameras starting from the CJEU judgment in Case C-212/13, Ryneš v. Úřad pro ochranuosobníchúdajů. The full text is available at http://eulawanalysis…
On December 4 and 5, 2014, the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council (one of the configurations of the Council of the European Union) made some progress on the EU data protection framework and the Proposal for a European Regulation. It discussed data protection in the public section and the “One Stop Shop” mechanism. The EU Council reached a […]
On November 26, 2014, Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) published the Guidelines for the implementation of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ)’s recent decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12 (“right to be forgotten” decision), holding that data subjects have a right to obtain the de-listing of links appearing in the search results based on a person’s name. Most […]
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 […]