I am the location head of the Italian Intellectual Property & Technology department and the global co-head of the IoT and Gaming and Gambling groups at the world-leading law firm DLA Piper. IoT and artificial intelligence influencer and FinTech and blockchain expert, finding solutions to what's next for our client's success.
Privacy rules aimed at facilitating the processing of biometric data have been just issued by the Italian data protection authority (the Garante)ย with the purpose of fostering technologies relying on their usage including Internet of Things technologies.
Online sports betting and casino games are leading to a positive trend in the Italian online gaming market, but the best results are expected by the end of the first quarter 2015.ย
It is possible to collect location data relating to employees through smartphone Apps if used in order to optimize the usage of resources and improve their management, coordination and timing provided that this practice complies with the stringent obligations imposed by the Italian privacy authority.
19 makers of cars and trucks sold in the US committed to preserve the privacy of their customers in the view of the massive amount of personal data that are going to be processed through connected car.ย
Here are the main legal topics on connected cars covered during the Connected Automobiles conference where I gave a presentation named "Privacy and regulations: state-of-the-art and future issues" on legal issues relating to connected cars whose slides are available here.
The potential increase of the gaming taxes for Italian land basedย videolottery and AWPs raised major concerns among operators and investors, but the real effects of such increase shall be reviewed in the long term together with the further measures expected to be adopted by the Government.