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In re Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litig., 988 F. Supp. 2d 434, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 145727, 2013 WL 5582866 (D. Del. 2013)

Date 10/09/2013.

On October 9, 2013, Delaware US District Court released a memorandum opinion dismissing charges against Google since plaintiffs did not demonstrate direct harm caused by the company’s actions. In this case, plaintiffs filed a consolidated amended complaint against Google and other companies providing internet services accusing them of having “tricked” their browsers into accepting unauthorized […]

Children’s Online Privacy – Calif. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 22580-22582

Date 09/23/2013.

Calif. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 22580-22582 (2013 S.B. 568, Chapter 336) California’s Privacy Rights for California Minors in the Digital World Act, also called the “eraser” bill, will permit minors to remove, or to request and obtain removal of, content or information posted on an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application. It also prohibits […]

Solove, Daniel J. and Hartzog, Woodrow, The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy

Date 08/15/2013.

114 Columbia Law Review 583 (2014) From the article’s abstract: “In this Article, we contend that the FTC’s privacy jurisprudence is functionally equivalent to a body of common law, and we examine it as such. We explore how and why the FTC, and not contract law, came to dominate the enforcement of privacy policies. A common view of […]

Allyson Haynes Stuart, Finding Privacy in a Sea of Social Media and Other E- Discovery

Date 08/08/2013.

From Abstract of the Article: This article looks at the case law governing discovery of social media, and finds several problems. First, many courts are improperly requiring a threshold showing that relevant information exists in public portions of the user’s social media account before allowing such discovery. Second, they allow overbroad discovery…The article argues that, […]

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Guidelines governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data

Date 07/31/2013.

The page describes the OECD work on privacy. From the page “Two themes run through the updated Guidelines. First is a focus on the practical implementation of privacy protection through an approach grounded in risk management. Second is the need for greater efforts to address the global dimension of privacy through improved interoperability”.

Certified e-mail – Juridical Relevance

Date 07/09/2013.

In Portale del Giurista – Foro Europeo.it (La posta elettronica certificata – rilevanza giuridica) This is a blog that lists some Italian case law on the use of PEC (“Posta Elettronica Certificata” i.e., certified e-mails) in civil litigation for the purpose of serving pleadings. The full text (in Italian) is available at http://www.foroeuropeo.it…

Autorità Garante della Privacy (Italian Data Protection Authority), Guidelines for advertisement and spam fighting

Date 07/04/2013.

Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 174 July 26, 2013 The Italian Privacy Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali) issued Guidelines on Spamming. The Authority had already issued rules on spamming (General Rules May 29, 2003) but those rule were based on a privacy law (Law December 31, 1996 no. 675) that was substituted by D.lgs. […]

Digital Agenda: New specific rules for consumers when telecoms personal data is lost or stolen in EU, European Commission’s Press Release

Date 06/24/2013.

From the Press Release: “The European Commission is putting into place new rules on what exactly telecoms operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should do if their customers’ personal data is lost, stolen or otherwise compromised. The purpose of these ‘technical implementing measures’ is to ensure all customers receive equivalent treatment across the EU in […]

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