Ireland wants to gag those who raise EU privacy cases before its own national regulator, the DPC (Data Protection Commission). It might seem like a local judicial dispute, but instead it is […]
GDPR ruling puts at risk Meta’s personalised ads business
Personalized ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are considered illegal if they have not been clearly and incontrovertibly authorized by the user. Meta cannot force users to accept the treatment aimed at […]
Where can the new Privacy Shield decision impact the most?
Today’s Court of Justice ruling invalidating the EU-US Data Protection Shield it is of paramount importance in the relationships between EU and US and will have a strong impact on transatlantic businesses, […]
GDPR in need for a centralized enforcement system to properly work with global platforms
The European Commission published a report about the GDPR to assess two years of implementation of the famous data protection regulation. This assessment was well awaited, also in light of the pending negotiation of the e-privacy regulation […]
The European data protection authorities intervene about corona-virus
Among the nonsense that we hear these days in the fight against Covid19, there is the one whereby current European rules on privacy and protection of personal data would weaken governments’ fight […]
The EU/Japan data flows agreement is a strategic move against US trade wars
(NB: the original version of this article was published in Italian on La Stampa) European Union and Japan agreed to create the world’s largest area of safe data flows, allowing their companies […]