The German Government approved a draft law to improve enforcement of certain data protection law provisions that aim to strengthen consumers’ protection. In particular, the draft law empowers consumers and business associations to commence actions against and issue warnings to companies who impermissibly collect, process or utilize personal data. The draft law, “Entwurf eines Gesetzes […]
On February 20, 2015, the Italian DPA approved the protocol that the authority will carry out in order to verify Google’s compliance with the requirements set forth with decision 3295641 to protect the privacy of Google’s service users in Italy. The actual content of the approved protocol was not published, but according to the Italian […]
Author describes the risk to privacy whenever one visits a health-related web page. From the article: “An analysis of over 80,000 such web pages shows that nine out of ten visits result in personal health information being leaked to third parties, including online advertisers and data brokers.” The full text is available at: http://phys.org…
Inside Counsel (2/19/2015) Author illustrate the questions that in-house counsels should be able to answer about his or her organization’s legal and business cybersecurity risk profile. The full text is available at http://www.insidecounsel.com…
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 […]
One of the most frequent questions we have at the moment is from clients asking us when the new EU data protection laws will come in. Needless to say there is no definite answer. In May 2014 we looked at what the proposed new laws say and some of the history behind them. You can […]
Starting Feb. 12, 2015, users have a new option in their Facebook security settings: it lets them choose a legacy contact to pass their account management over when the time comes. The setting provides: “Choose a family member or close friend to care for your account if something happens to you.” Once you have chosen a […]
After WP29 issued the guidelines to help authorities to deal with appeals resulting from search engines’ refusal to “de-list” (see here), the Italian Data Protection Authority is facing the challenges of implementing the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”. As of February 2015, the Italian Data Protection Authority received around 10 appeals against search engines refusal to […]
On 28 January 2015, the Brazilian government issued a Draft Bill for the Protection of Personal Data (Anteprojeto de Lei para a Proteção de Dados Pessoais). The Draft establishes a comprehensive, European-style data protection framework for the processing of all personal data. It applies to individuals and companies that process personal data via automated means, […]
On January 16, 2015, President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron agreed to deepen their cybersecurity cooperation to better protect American and British citizens. Obama assured that they will work “to find … a consistent framework whereby our publics have confidence that their government can both protect them, but not abuse our capacity to operate in […]