Category Archives: Privacy & identity

PRIVACY and DATA PROTECTION: 10 lessons on the new European Regulation

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The 24th May 2016 the European Regulation on Privacy 2016/679 entered into force. The GDPR, General Data Protection Regulations, included in it applies to the European and non-European companies offering goods and services in Europe or having an establishment or a representative in Europe. Italian and foreign companies doing business with the European Union should […]

Facebook and privacy – The U.S. giant again on trial for its data collection policies

How far may the tracking of users’ personal data of the social network go without incurring any violation of their privacy? In the last few years, the issue has been widely debated in the European and American Courts, with different and sometimes conflicting results. In February 2017, the district judge of San Jose, California, rendered […]

The European Parliament approves the report on robot’s rights

Robert A. Freitas Jr., an American lawyer and university professor with a passion for future, in 1979 wrote, Xenology and SETI, a volume devoted to aliens and juridical problems the world would be facing at their arrival. It doesn’t seem alien arrived but new aliens are already among us. In 1985, A. Freitas himself assumed […]

“Privacy Shield”, the Guarantor instructs data transfer in the US

Multinational societies and Italian companies will be able to transfer their personal data to companies located in the US which joined or will join the so called “Privacy Shield”. The Guarantor of the Privacy has authorized overseas transfer of personal data. The authorization of the Guarantor of the 21 November 2016 replaced the prior, lapsed […]