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WhatsApp plus Facebook, what data protection issues?

Adding 450 million monthly users to 1.3 bn monthly users costs $19 bn according to Facebook, but also means that the buyer will be able to know about (and benefit from) much more information on its users to be potentially used for advertising purposes. This is what advertisers might be thinking about, but this might be also the concern of the Canadian, the Dutch and the Italian data protection authority that investigated on WhatsApp in 2013. 

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Youtube wins in Spain, but what Internet liability in Italy?

The fight between YouTube and the Italian TV company Mediaset on Internet liability principles continues! The Spanish court of Appeal held that YouTube is a mere hosting provider rather than a content provider and therefore not liable for the publication by its users of videos infringing the copyrights of Telecinco , the Spanish harm of…

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Can I apply for a license under Italian gaming law ?

€ 226 million of GGR achieved by the Italian online casino market in 2013 are expected to double if following the potential new approach from casino game suppliers a substantial portion of the current black market will migrate to licensed websites. And this circumstance together with the launch of additional products under the refreshed gaming law regime is creating a new interest for the Italian remote gaming market. But the process to obtain an Italian remote gaming license is more complicated than expected.

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Top 5 giveaways at #Fashiononline and wearable technologies event

€ 1.3 bn is the value of sales from Italian fashion websites in 2013 with an increase year by year of 30+% and considerable potentials for further growth since it represents only 20% of the total value of the Italian B2C e-commerce sector. These are some of the topics together with wearable technology issues impacting on the Internet of Things covered in the very interesting #Fashiononline event that took place in Milan (Italy).

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Copyright Internet liability enforcement provisions create concerns by European Commission

Italian regulations introducing a new enforcement proceeding for the copyright breaches occurring on the Internet recently approved might be now reviewed in the light of doubts raised by the European Commission. But in absence of that businesses should now get ready to comply! The regulations had been criticized by commentators because…

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