On October 28, 2014, the Bundesgerichtshof (the German Federal Supreme Court) referred to the European Court of Justice a preliminary ruling on whether an IP address constitutes personal data under the EU Data Protection Directive (court ref. VI ZR 135/13). The Bundesgerichtshof, having to decide whether the IP address of a visitor can be saved beyond […]
On December 4, 2014, the Italian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) issued a resolution to answer the motion that Google presented in September for a waiver of the notification requirement of Article 13, paragraph 5 of the Italian Privacy Code (as interpreted by the DPA’s resolution of October 15, 2010 towards Google – read here) which […]
The author argues that the legislature and the private sector must be involved in the standards-setting and decision-making processes to maintain the balance between the civilian and military power that the Third Amendment embodies. The full text is available at http://www.aulawreview…
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 […]
The ABA published an interesting article describing law firms’ use of technology to protect information. In addition to describing 2014 trends, the article suggests that lawyers should keep abreast of technology in order to have up-to-date security programs. The article, Security, by David Ries is available at http://www.americanbar… Follow us on& Like us on
ABA Techreport 2014 Conclusion from the article: “The 2014 Legal Technology Survey Report provides a good roadmap of what attorneys and law firms are doing to protect information. Those who are behind the reporting attorneys on safeguards should evaluate their security posture to determine whether they need to do more to provide competent and reasonable […]
ABA Techreport 2014 Conclusion from the article: “The 2014 Legal Technology Survey Report indicates that, for a significant number of lawyers and firms, cloud services are part of the IT equation, but also shows that the adoption rates have slowed, raising the question whether we seeing a pause or a plateau. The strong interest in consumer cloud […]
December 17, 2014: “We would like to keep you informed on progress of the legislative initiative changing the Federal Law № 242-FZ introducing changes to the Federal Law “On personal data” and to the Federal Law “On information, information technologies and protection of information” (hereinafter – the “Data Localization Law”) that was adopted earlier on […]
On December 9, 2014, twenty-three privacy authorities from around the world signed a joint letter (specifically addressed to Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Nokia, BlackBerry and Amazon.com but intended for all companies operating app marketplaces) urging companies to make links to privacy policies mandatory for all applications that collect personal information. The authorities acknowledge the fact that numerous […]
10 ISJLP 327 (2014) Abstract: “Revelations of massive aggregation of telephone call records by the NSA have led to widespread debate about the legality, effectiveness, and normative desirability of such broad-based government data collection. This article contends that mass collection of so-called “metadata” as a means to investigate associations impinges on the First Amendment right […]