With order of February 10th 2022, the Court of Rome ordered Apple to deliver to the widow of a user the access credentials of her late husband, stating that the rights related to the personal data of a deceased person can be exercised by subjects with family interests deserving protection. The case concerned a woman’s request […]
Category Archives: Internet & domains
Digital piracy in Europe: the new EUIPO report
The European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights of EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) on December 9th 2021 published a new report titled ““Online Copyright Infringement In The European Union Music, Films And Tv (2017-2020), Trends And Drivers” digital piracy, precisely on online consumption in Europe of copyright-infringing content. The study took in consideration the period from […]
Italian DPA guidelines on the use of cookies and other tracking tools
Within January 10th, 2022, the webmasters will have to comply to the new guidelines on the use of cookies published by the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA). Generally, cookies are strings of text which enable websites to store information on the device in use by the user. Because of cookies, for instance, it is possible […]
The Italian Data Protection Authority punishes Deliveroo for discriminatory algorithms against riders
With order n. 285 of July 22nd 2021, the Italian Data Protection Authority ordered Deliveroo Italy s.r.l., leading company of the food delivery industry, to pay a penalty of 2,5 million Euro for the illicit personal data processing of about 8,000 riders. The Italian Data Protection Authority detected several violations by Deliveroo, both of the […]