There is an ever growing protest in Italy against Sky Italia’s decision to exclude from its digital TV package Current TV, the TV channel and website founded by Al Gore in 2005 which is famous for hosting...
Archive - May 2011
The Italian Privacy Authority opens an inquiry into iPhones
The Italian Privacy Authority has decided to open an inquiry in order to shed light on the procedure of location-tracking and user location data storing on 3G iPhones and iPads running iOS4. Two researchers from the...
Development Decree: not only beaches but also privacy…
The Law Decree regarding “Prime disposizioni urgenti per l’economia” (Urgent First measures for the Economy), also called “Decreto-Sviluppo” (Development Decree), which was published in the Official Journal on May 13...
Some thoughts on the Aruba Black-out and data protection
A week has gone by since Aruba users were inconvenienced by the damage to Aruba servers which caused the most serious blackout ever monitored on the Italian web. We would like to present a few thoughts here also...
The Deadline for amendments to the e-privacy Directive is upcoming
The deadline for adopting and publishing Directive 2009/136/EC is 25 May 2011. This Directive, inter alia, amends Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the...
Italian Supreme Court: cases of libel originate where they are perceived
The appropriate Court for the investigation of cases of libel must be that in which those cases of libel are received. Therefore registering an Italian website abroad does not protect website owners from being sued for...