Data protection rules will be adequately protected through the registry to be set up against frauds in the insurance sector according to the Italian data protection authority.
This is a quite unusual post for this blog, but the relevance of the conference justifies that. ย I am interested in participating as a speaker to theย Web Summit, the largest technology conference in the world, next November in order to cover legal issues relevant for the Internet of Things. ย
Internet of Things technologies require the communication between devices on telecom networks that vary depending on the type of service provided. ย Such communications in some cases lead to telecom law issues in relation to the possibility to use the relevant telecom network and obligations triggered by such usage. ย These are among the issues that the Italian telecom authority, AGCOM and the UK telecom authority, OFCOM, will be discussing during the current consultation on the Internet of Things.
The status of the Italian videolottery market might considerably change after the new measures ordered against B Plus Giocolegale Ltd., one the largest Italian videolottery and AWP (comma 6A) operators, which placed the company in a status of "extraordinary and temporary management".ย
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The approval of technical standards introducing an RFID logo and a process for their data protection impact assessment required to comply with the EU Recommendation on RFIDs are expected to boost their usage in several fields including the Internet of Things.
The Internet of Things (IoT) will enable devices to communicate and share data with one another and data to be combined and used across multiple applications. ย However, such applications also raise relevant legal issues. ย The Italian Telecom Authority (AGCOM) has for this purpose just launched a consultation on the Internet of Things in order to understand how to better foster this market whose value will reach $ 7.1 trillion in sales by 2020. ย
Outsourcing agreements are always a new adventure and trying to find the best contractual arrangement is not easy. ย And this task is even harder in outsourcing agreements where the supplier provides a large part of the services and licenses necessary to run the business usually on the basis of a profit sharing arrangement. ย This situation might lead to relevant tax related risks because of the willingness of the supplier to control the business.
Internet liability rules applicable to Wikipedia are different from the ones with which YouTube has to comply according to the Court of Rome as Wikipedia has now been declared not liable to for the defamatory contents published by its users.
Data protection issues for Google in Italy are not over. ย The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has now challenged their privacy information notice requiring - among others - an express consent from users to their profiling for marketing purposes leading to issues that might impact any business based on the processing of BIG DATA such as the Internet of Things and in general on behavioural advertising.