2014 is just over and it is time to wish happy New Year and thank all the readers of GamingTechLaw for following with such interest the GamingTechLAW blog! But it is also time to check which have been the best articles of 2014.
€ 500 million of additional gaming taxes, an approval procedure for CTDs and a new license application process for lotto games have been approved in Italy as part of the budget law.
Internet of Things has been the centre of the attention of the global market during 2014 and everyone is curious to see what will happen in 2015.
End of .COM, innovation, M&A consolidation, CTDs and casino games in my personal predictions for the gaming sector in 2015.
Internet of Things regulators might have learnt an interesting lesson from Google's decision to shut down Google News in Spain as a consequence of the coming into force of new publishing law.
Prize promotions might have an easier life in Italy due to clarifications just issued by the Ministry that however do not sort all the issues especially for international and social media promotions.
Device fingerprinting is replacing cookies for analytics and tracking purposes, but privacy regulators now held that their usage is subject to the privacy consent, unless exemptions apply.
For those that missed the articles of November 2014, here are the top articles of the month!
For those that missed my presentation of Privacy and national laws as an obstacle to telemedicine at the National Center of Research, you can find the slides of the presentation here as well as on the Presentation Page of this blog.
The EU Article 29 Working Party provided clarifications on the implementation of the privacy right to be forgotten following the famous decision of the European Court of Justice involving Google search engine.