Scholarly Articles & Institutional Publications

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

PL&B International (August 2014 issue)  From the article: “EU Council provisionally agrees on data transfers and territorial scope. Safe Harbor likely to remain, and Germany proposes more protection for public sector.” The full text can be downloaded (with subscription) at: http://www.privacylaws…

PL&B International (August 2014 issue)  From the article: “No ‘whitelist’ of countries for data exports exists, but the regulations allow for the use of Binding Corporate Rules.” The full text can be downloaded (with subscription) at: http://www.privacylaws.com/