How do you collect digital evidence online? What about evidence of illicit activity on Google or Facebook? How can you legally defend yourself from a charge of cybercrime? Is evidence collected through a computer eavesdropper, keylogger, or Trojan horse valid? What legal value do files have? Read more about Computer and Internet crimes. How to accuse or defend yourself, and how to gather evidence.[…]
Panel: Right to be Forgotten, Treviso Charter, Privacy: Ethics on the Web November 19, 2015, 6:30-8:30 PM – Campiotti Room – Chamber of Commerce, Piazza Monte Grappa 5 "The digital dimension has profoundly changed the information ecosystem, eliminating traditional space-time references. It is therefore necessary to identify new regulatory frameworks capable of enabling the development of digital communication. Read more about Right to be forgotten, Treviso Charter, and privacy. The Privacy Guarantor and experts meet in Varese.[…]
The ART29WP has released a first statement on the application consequences of the ECJ ruling on the agreement for data transfer from the EU to the US (Safe Harbour). The Community Body has promised that it will evaluate how the ECJ ruling affects other data transfer instruments to the US (i.e. Standard Contractual Clauses and Binding Corporate Rules), while allowing companies to validly resort to the Read more about Privacy: the position of European data protection authorities on contractual clauses.[…]
The earthquake may be even more widespread than it seems at first glance. Lawyer Fulvio Sarzana, an expert in digital privacy, explains, "Now four thousand foreign companies that process European citizens' data under the safe harbor regime – from Facebook to Google to Booking – will have to review all their systems to avoid the Read more about EU Court: Privacy Revolution: Here's What's Changing[…]
Rome Court: No to the removal of content on Facebook for defamation and privacy. Freedom of expression, recognized by Article 21 of the Constitution, prevails. The dissemination of news about specific people and facts on social networks, even when those people do not hold public positions, is protected by Article 21 of the Constitution, and the Read more about Rome Court: No to the removal of Facebook content for defamation and privacy reasons. It violates Article 21 of the Constitution.[…]
The Court of Cassation has ruled that the collection of images through an intercom camera that, although not connected to any recorder, allows third parties to detect the presence of individuals in a given location, also constitutes the processing of personal data. As such, the device must be accompanied by a panel that indicates it. Read more about Right to Privacy, Cameras Cassation.[…]
“Another jurist who has been working on these issues for some time, Fulvio Sarzana, emphasizes that none of this would be permissible under Italian law: "Things like this are not permissible in our legal system. Nor from a sentencing perspective, since the sentences themselves must aim at the re-education and reintegration of the convicted person." Read more about Lifetime Internet surveillance for terrorism offenses. La Repubblica.[…]
Video surveillance in the workplace is legal, but effective and widespread monitoring by the store manager where the cameras are installed, or by another individual with hierarchical and disciplinary authority over workers, is not permitted. Furthermore, the names of authorized persons must be made known to workers. Read more about Privacy, Council of State: Video surveillance in the workplace is legal, but not for superiors.[…]
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