Category Archives: Privacy & identity

Privacy, how to protect yourself from telemarketing

Companies and private citizens experience every day an increasingly aggressive and annoying telemarketing which it is hard to protect from. However there are rules for this and we can make use of them. According to a taken in 20 Septembre 2012, the Guarantor of Privacy specified that legal people, authorities, organizations and private citizens have […]

Video cameras are not an invasion of privacy

The Court of Cassation (verdict August 9th 2012 n. 14346) ordained that the only owner of an housing complex is not subject to privacy regulations even when some of its apartments are given on an extended loan or rented out to other people. The case was about a woman who, after separating from her husband, […]

Twitter defends its own users

A judge from New York has demanded that Twitter provide all of the messages posted from the account of Malcolm Harris, an Occupy Wall Street militant, along with any other related data. The reason for this investigation is to see if this person was involved in an event that occurred during a demonstration some months […]