Several Professional Associations have recently launched a formal protest against Groupon, the commercial offers site which is becoming more and more popular in Italy and abroad. The first complaints came in November...
Archive - December 2011
The report on UNCITRAL Working Group session on Electronic Commerce has been published
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has just published the official report on the last meeting of the Working Group on Electronic Commerce.Giusella Finocchiaro took part in the official...
Italian Supreme Court: web magazines are not to be held responsible for readers' comments
The editors of online newspapers are not responsible for defamatory comments posted by their readers. This is what has recently been established by the Italian Supreme Court when asked to rule on the legality of the...
Monti's Economic Measures Revolutionize the Italian Privacy Code
Among the various provisions of the Monti government’s new economic measures (Law Decree no.201 of December 6, 2011) published in Official Gazette no. 284 of December 6, 2011, we find the introduction of a radical...
Return of the“ Italian Internet Registry for companies”
New reports have appeared on the Internet from users who have received letters from the German company DAD Deutscher Adressdienst GMBH for registering with the “Italian Internet Registry for companies”. The...
Investigation into italia-programmi.net underway
Following more than a thousand complaints from Italian citizens, the Rome Public Prosecutor has launched an investigation into the legality of the site www.italia-programmi.net, operated by Extended Limited and based in...