The privacy problem of cookie-free tracking methods: device fingerprinting

Cookie regulation in Europe is quite strict. In a previous blog we discussed the cookie law of France, Germany, Italy and the UK, focusing on information to users, user consent and consequences of violations. However, cookies are not the only method to track users. There are cookie-free tracking methods that are similarly invasive, for example […]

EU data protection and cybersecurity law as applied to the IoT – some thoughts about why it is inadequate

Internet-of-Things (IoT) (or internet-of-everything as it is often interchangeably called-) is a buzzword and it is all over. At present, the news is more technological than legal. Nonetheless, the IoT triggers some worrisome legal issues, among which data collection, data security, and invasion of privacy are among the most compelling. Actually, these issues are imposing because […]

Francesca Giannoni-Crystal and Allyson Haynes Stuart, EU data protection and cybersecurity law as applied to the IoT – some thoughts about why it is inadequate

Internet-of-Things (IoT) (or internet-of-everything as it is often interchangeably called-) is a buzzword and it is all over. At present, the news is more technological than legal. Nonetheless, the IoT triggers some worrisome legal issues, among which data collection, data security, and invasion of privacy are among the most compelling. Actually, these issues are imposing because […]

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Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, Federica Romanelli, Cookie rules or cookies rule? EU law and the situation in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. P:art Two

France Article 32-II of the French Data Protection Act transposes into French law the obligation to obtain informed consent to store information of Article 5.3, Directive 2002/58/EC (above). On December 16, 2013, the CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority, released a set of practical FAQs (plus technical tools and relevant source code, in French) providing […]

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