Category Archives: Internet & domains

Unclear privacy policy: Italian DPA fines Uber

privacy policy

 With the Order of March 24th 2022, the Italian Data Protection Authority inflicted to Uber B.V. and Uber Technologies Inc. the total sanction of 4,240,000 Euro for the violation of the articles 13, 23 and 37 of the personal data protection Code. The Italian DPA opened ex officio the proceeding against Uber after a data […]

Typosquatting: the ACQUATETRAPACK.IT case

typosquatting

A recent dispute managed by the IP Dispute Resolution Center MFSD covered an interesting new case of typosquatting. As known, typosquatting is a particular case of cybersquatting. Whilst the latter consists in an unlawful activity brought by a subject who registers domain names correspondent to trademarks or other distinctive signs of a third party, only […]

Digital rights survive death

digital rights

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 […]

Digital piracy in Europe: the new EUIPO report

digital piracy

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 […]