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 […]
European Court of Justice — Joined cases C-141/12 and C-372/12, Judgment of 17 July 2014 Topic Data Protection – Directive 95/46/EC and definition of personal data The European Court of Justice provided further directions on the definition of personal data for the purposes of EU law. The ECJ ruled that the legal analysis contained in […]
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 […]
On September 25, 2014, the NY Appellate Division of the Supreme Court denied the New York County District Attorney motion to dismiss Facebook’s appeal of In re search 381 search warrants directed to Facebook and dated July 23, 2013. In July 2013, a trial court issued bulk search warrants directing Facebook to produce virtually all records and communications […]
Chapter 22.2, Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code On September 29, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill to protect students in the digital age. Online sites, services, and applications developed for k-12 school purposes must (i) safeguard student personal information; (ii) ensure that the third party applications they make […]
On June 27, 2014, the 54 States participating to the African Union adopted the African Union Convention on Cyber-security and Personal Data Protection. Chapter II of the Convention, ‘Personal Data Protection’ describes comprehensive data protection measures, relevant to both the public and private sectors. The text of the Convention can be found here. Open Pdf Follow us […]
For the first time after the ECJ’s decision of last May (“right to be forgotten” decision) a European court has condemned Google in a case concerning the “right to be forgotten”. On September 16, 2014, the TGI (Tribunal de Grande Instance) — court of first instance of general jurisdiction in Paris — issued a decision […]