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Giulio Coraggio

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.

1,393 articles published

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Data Retention Inspections

The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has run an inspection on 11 telephony and Internet service providers as to the term and modalities of retention of traffic data. As a general principle, personal data cannot be retained for longer than the term necessary for the purpose for which they have been collected.…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 10, 20130Comments

Intellectual Property liability ISP

Live Streaming is Copyright Breach

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that the video streaming of television broadcasts by a third party triggers a copyright breach, but what are the consequences on recent Italian case laws? In a case involving TV Catchup a service allowing the live streaming of TV broadcasts on computers, smartphones or games consoles only by the people located…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 8, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

WhatsApp investigated by the Italian Data Protection Authority

WhatsApp, the instant messaging application, has been requested by the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) to provide details on the processing of data concerning Italian users. Following the investigation by the Canadian and Dutch DPAs, the Italian authority requested the Californian company to clarify the types of data collected and used as part of…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 5, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity liability ISP

Google Vividown: the Appeal decision

As anticipated, Google's managers have been acquitted by the Italian Court of Appeal in the privacy-related dispute famous as Vividown. The reasoning of the decision has now been published and it is interesting to see that the court based its decision on the absence of any monitoring obligation on Google as to the videos published…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 4, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Remote monitoring of employees – recent court updates

The Italian Supreme Court (the Corte di Cassazione) issued two interesting decisions on remote monitoring of employees' working activity which as already reported is subject to considerable restrictions under Italian employment and privacy law. The Court in the first case held that it was illegal the usage of a software monitoring the calls…

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 3, 20130Comments

Gaming

Bets on Virtual Events Regulations Approved

The Italian gambling authority, AAMS, has now approved regulations concerning bets on virtual events which because of their tax treatment might have a considerable impact on the Italian sportsbetting market.

ByGiulio CoraggioFebruary 20, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Auction for Videolottery rights in Italy after B Plus?

According to the press, the Italian Administrative Court of Appeal (the "Consiglio di Stato") has rejected today B Plus appeal against the decision of the court of first instance to reject the request of suspension of AAMS' decision to refuse the renewal of B Plus' videolottery and AWP license.

ByGiulio CoraggioFebruary 12, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Binding Corporate Rules for Processors

Watch Alessandro's video on this interesting topic here

ByGiulio CoraggioFebruary 4, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Spanish authorities announce their intention to slow down the approval of new games

Read about the recent developments in the Spanish gambling market here

ByGiulio CoraggioFebruary 4, 20130Comments

Gaming

Italian Gaming Data – Year 2012

The Italian gaming authority has published the data of the Italian online gaming market relation to year 2012 unveiling some very interesting information. First of all, the massive success of the launch of online slots has been confirmed with an increase of the spending between the month of November and the…

ByGiulio CoraggioJanuary 25, 20130Comments