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, […]
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 […]
European Commission sends signals in favor of encryption
The European bubble in Brussels is currently rumbling about a story concerning Instant Messaging. The European Commission is reported to have sent guidelines to its employees regarding the use of Instant Messaging […]
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 […]
How Mr. Zuckerberg avoided the trap of the European Parliament
Mr. Zuckerberg may have been surprised about how much complex the European political system is. Invited by the Chairman Antonio Tajani to meet the European Parliament in Brussels, he ended up confronting […]
The time for saying “if the service is free, you are the Product” is running out
With the entry into force of the famous European regulation 2016/679, the so-called GDPR (which stands for “General Data Protection Regulation) it will become difficult for socials and online platforms to force […]
EU dataflow: the new Privacy Shield is (almost) born
On February 2, 2016 the European Commission announced in a press conference in Strasbourg to have found a political agreement with the US authorities to allow the transfer of personal data from […]
The end of the Safe Harbor regime: time for structural separation of personal data?
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared invalid the so-called Safe Harbor decision of April 26, 2000 of the European Commission which allowed US platforms and OTTs such as Facebook, Amazon, […]
Search engines, right to be forgotten and data protection: regulating Google?
A new decision of the Court of justice of the European Union (case C-131/12 Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos) raises very interesting points with regard […]
Malmström frena sulla data retention
La normativa europea sulla data retention verrà aggiornata, ma senza fretta. AGGIORNAMENTO 11 DICEMBRE 2014: come è noto, la direttiva data retention è stata annullata nel aprile 2014, dando luogo a reazioni […]