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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.

1,474 articles published

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Nickname theft is a crime

The Italian Supreme Court convicted for the crime of identity theft a person that had created on an erotic chat a nickname with the initials of her former employer also providing her mobile number. The defendant had argued that the crime did not arise because she had not pretended to be the claimant.…

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 1, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Ryanair sanctioned for charging credit card fees

Ryanair has been sanctioned to the payment of an € 400K fine as their advertised flight fares were not inclusive of an additional cost for the usage of credit cards whose charging has been in any case deemed in breach of applicable regulations. The Italian competition authority which has jurisdiction also on misleading…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 30, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Data Breaches – What to do!

The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) after a long consultation has finally published its decision on the measures to be taken in case of data breaches by telecom and Internet operators implementing the Directive 2009/136/CE. Telephone and internet service providers shall notify the DPA of any breach of personal data stored in…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 30, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

e-Books Warranty Exclusion Clauses Invalid

Ts&Cs of e-books platforms excluding warranties for the e-books sold or for the download of movies have been deemed in b reach of regulations on unfair terms in consumer contracts and therefore not valid. As previously mentioned, the Italian competition authority has also jurisdiction on the qualification as "unfair" (and therefore null…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 29, 20130Comments

Gaming

New Bingo Regulations, the right approach to success?

AAMS has published the new protocol of communication that will regulate the offering of bingo games under the new regulations which will shortly come into force, but more interestingly AAMS published some FAQs on the future of Italian bingo regulations. As expected, the general impression is that AAMS is still willing to keep bingo…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 24, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Mobile payment, what restrictions?

Mobile payment is more and more in the radar of IT companies and even Apple apparently will launch soon their mobile payment platform. However, what regulatory restrictions are applicable to the after the EU PSD Directive? In particular, mobile carriers and providers of services are willing to enable their users…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 23, 20130Comments

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Franchising – disclosure of all information upfront!

The Italian competition authority sanctioned with a fine of EUR 150,000 the advertising over the Internet of a franchising network of travel agencies as the advertised affiliation price did not include the price for all the services and equipment required by the affiliation network and did not specify that value added tax had to be…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 22, 20130Comments

liability ISP

27 websites seized for illegal movie downloading

The criminal court of Rome seized 27 websites for copyright breach as through such websites it was possible to illegally download the movie A Monster in Paris. Italian copyright law sanctions with criminal penalties the illegal broadcasting of copyright protected works and the blocking of the access to websites through the filtering of domain names…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 22, 20130Comments

Gaming

Bets out of Palinsesto – a step forward

AAMS has just published the draft version of the new protocol of communication PSQF introducing the possibility to offer sportsbetting markets not included in the AAMS' official schedule, the so called palinsesto. We previously reported that the draft decree allowing operators to offer in addition to the type of bets and events included in the…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 20, 20130Comments

Gaming

Anti-money laundering obligations for banks and gaming operators

The Bank of Italy has issued indicators of suspicious money laundering conducts with which both banks dealing with gaming operators and gaming operators themselves shall comply. As previously reported, Italian anti-money laundering law provides specific provisions in relation to the gaming sector and operators are subject to very stringent requirements. In this respect, the new indicators…

ByGiulio CoraggioApril 18, 20130Comments