By ruling no. 14697 of October 16th 2023, the Court of Rome clarified the requirements for the protection of a work as a database. The case A company and an expert chemist – in the course of a collaboration – started an educational project relating to cosmetics and detergents. In particular, on the company’s website, […]
Artificial Intelligence and health services
The European Union has recently considered appropriate to analyze the topic of personal data processing through artificial intelligence (AI). In particular, high-risk AI systems have been identified, with reference to the type of processed data and the high degree of threat to which the related rights and freedoms of the individual concerned are subjected. In […]
Italian DPA’s fines: the Supreme Court of Italy clarifies the highest limits
With decision of September 22nd 2023, no. 27189, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation stated that quantifying the pecuniary administrative fine based on the average percentage applied in similar cases it’s a violation of the GDPR, which, on the contrary, imposes to quantify the amount of the fine based on the circumstances of the specific […]
The EU Court fines the use of geo-blocking to prevent the access to an online videogame
With decision of 09.27.2023 (C T-172/21), the Court of the European Union stated that the activation of geoblocking in order to prevent the access to videogames available on the Steam platform, represents a violation of the European law on competition. How does geoblocking work? Geo-blocking is a practice, generally realized by localizing the user’s […]