With decision of July 4th 2023 (case C-252/21), the EU Court of Justice limited significantly the processing activities carried out by the companies of the Meta Group on personal data. The measure concerns mainly the so-called off-Facebook data, that is data relating to activities that Facebook users do outside the social network. The issue Facebook economic […]
The Data Act represents an important contribution to the European regulation on data protection, which mainly deals with the creation of value resulting from the use of data. The Data Act joins the Data Governance Act, which entered into force on September 24th 2023. Together, they pursue the goal of facilitating and accelerating the circulation […]
As of February 17, 2024, the obligations introduced by the EU Regulation 2022/2065 on the Single Market for Digital Services (Digital Service Act or DSA) will be applied to all European operators. With regards to the so-called Big Tech companies, on August 25, 2023 some of the Digital Service Act provisions came into effect, introducing […]
On July 10th 2023 the European Commission announced the adoption of the adequacy decision on the new EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for the protection of the personal data transferred towards USA. After the invalidation by the European Court of Justice of the previous decision of adequacy on Privacy Shield, now personal data should be able to […]
According to the EPO Patent Index 2023, Italian companies and inventors have filed a record number of...
