Category Archives: Internet & domains

The EU-U.S. Agreement to Transfer Personal Data Has Finally been Signed

EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework

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 […]

Meta Pixel and Facebook Login: the Austrian DPA rejects Meta’s tracking tools

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The Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB), with decision of March 6, 2023, stated that the use of Facebook Login and Meta Pixel tracking tools, provided by the American company Meta, involves the transfer of personal data to the USA infringing thus the prescriptions imposed by the GDPR for the transfer of data outside the EU. […]

Hosting Provider: the Court of Rome clarifies the area of responsibility of the passive hosting

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The Court of Rome, with decision no. 5700/2023 of 7 April 2023, ruled on the matter of the hosting provider responsibility for copyright infringements carried out by users of the platform. The case The case submitted to the Court of Rome concerned the abusive diffusion, on a video sharing platform, of a high quantity of […]

AI ACT: European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence coming soon

AI Act

The AI Act is a European law proposal on artificial intelligence (AI) presented by the EU Commission on April 21, 2021. On May 11, the internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee has approved the draft and, if it is approved also by the Parliament and the EU Council, it will become the world […]