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The news has been saturated lately by stories of data breaches. The IRS discovered recently that a breach of citizens’ tax return information covered more than 330,000 taxpayers, three times that originally identified in May of this year. Target’s data breach in 2013 is back in the news because the company just settled claims against it by […]

[continues…] The Target breach illustrates the breadth of applicable state laws when a data breach affects a large company. On December 19, 2013, Target announced that it had been the victim of a criminal attack on its computer network by third-party intruders who stole payment card data and other personal information from Target shoppers who shopped […]

The result of one of Europe’s most anxiously awaited data protection cases came out last week. We have previously reported on the action brought by Max Schrems in Austria against Facebook. Our previous alert with background on the case is here. What happened? On July 1, 2015, the Vienna Regional Court (Landesgericht) rejected the Schrems […]

On April 14, 2015, in Sweet v. LinkedIn Corporation, a California District Court held that reference searches conducted through LinkedIn do not amount to background checks. LinkedIn Reference Searches are not protected under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), and therefore employers are not subject to its requirements, (e.g. obtaining candidate’s written permission, disclosures obligations). In this […]

The recent decision of the European Court of Justice in Google Spain SL v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos is a good opportunity to compare the obligation of search engines with reference to the search results in Europe and United States. The ruling of May 13, 2014, holds that all European citizens have a […]

The recent decision of the European Court of Justice in Google Spain SL v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos is a good opportunity to compare the obligation of search engines with reference to the search results in Europe and United States. The ruling of May 13, 2014, holds that all European citizens have a “right to […]

  In my talk I will go ahead analyzing the approach of American will provide some elements to understand benefits and risks of cloud computing from an American lawyer’s perspective. I ethics opinions on cloud computing. Then, I will discuss the different implications of privacy law on cloud computing under an American perspective, as opposed to a […]

  In my talk I will provide some elements to understand benefits and risks of cloud computing from an American lawyer’s perspective. I will go ahead analyzing the approach of American ethics opinions on cloud computing. Then, I will discuss the different implications of privacy law on cloud computing under an American perspective, as opposed to […]

            Career Ms. Giannoni-Crystal is a dually-qualified U.S. and Italian attorney. She graduated cum laude from the Charleston School of Law and with maximum grades from University of Florence (Italy). After serving as a legal consultant for the Italian Employers’ Association and on a general retainer as attorney for Deloitte […]

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