Nathan M. Crystal and Francesca Giannoni-Crystal, “Something’s Got To Give – Cloud Computing, As Applied To Lawyers – Comparative Approach US And EU And Practical Proposals To Overcome Differences” published in Opinio Iuris in Comparatione. Read here the full text Abstract What is cloud computing? What are the advantages, disadvantages, and risks, both legal and ethical in […]
The European Union is developing its “right to be forgotten”. According to the author, however “In this country, we should avoid their example. The courts are not the right place to make policy that requires a complex balancing of individual and public rights. The facts presented in one particular case are insufficient to guide a […]
64 Am. U. L. Rev. 195 (2014) Abstract: “In late 2014, two grand juries returned controversial no bill decisions in police killings, one in Ferguson, Missouri, and one in New York City. These outcomes have renewed calls for grand jury reform, and whatever one thinks of these particular processes and outcomes, such reform is long […]
Irish High Court, Case 2013 765 JR, June 18, 2014 On June 18, 2014, the Irish High Court referred to the EU Court of Justice a number of questions concerning the application of the Safe Harbor principles regarding cross-border transfer of private data, the key issue being whether national judges are “absolutely bound” by a […]
An Italian wife published pictures of honeymoon on her Facebook profile and husband sued to have them removed. Judge sided with the husband and granted an injunction ordering the wife to remove the pictures. Pursuant to Article 10 of the Italian Civil Code and to Article 10 of a 1941 law (Law 633/1941), the pictures were published […]
A massive DNA search involving more than 22,000 DNA tests (which at last tracked down a suspect as the one whose DNA material was found on the body) raised privacy concerns and ultimately a note from the Italian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) last June. One critic characterized the DNA investigation as a “genetic soap opera,” […]
Inside the EU Commission’s European Cloud Computing Strategy, dating back September 2012, on June 24, 2014, the Cloud Select Industry Group – Subgroup on Service Legal Agreements, published Standardisation Guidelines for Cloud Service Level Agreements, which the Commission hopes will ease relationships between service providers and customers. Read the Guidelines Follow us on& Like us on […]
July 9, 2014 We would like to alert you of the latest legislative changes amending significantly the Russian personal data legal landscape. The draft law No. № 553424-6 introducing amendments to the Federal Law “On personal data” and to the Federal Law “On information, information technologies and protection of information” (hereinafter – “Law”) has passed […]
The author discusses the question referred by the Irish High Court to the European Court of Justice (Case 2013 765 JR) of whether “a national data protection authority has to blindly follow the Commission’s Decision (Safe Harbor)” or if such authority is able to carry out its own review of a third country’s level of data […]
After the recent Court of Justice of the European Union’s ruling holding that certain users of search engines can ask, in certain cases, to search engines to remove results for queries that include their name (Case 131-12), Bing has uploaded a online form to ask for the removal in Europe. Bing specifies that it will […]