The Italian Criminal Court of Cassation issued a very interesting decision on defamatory comments published in an online forum.  To give you a bit of background information, Italian press law prescribes that directors of editorial products (e.g. a journal, magazines, newspapers) are objectively liable for any content published on them even if they…

The Italian Data Protection Authority has ordered to 3 telecom providers to delete telecom and Internet traffic data that they were storing for a period longer than that prescribed by the Italian Privacy Code as well as other data (e.g. the subject of emails and the IP address of destination) that the provider was not…

OUT-LAW.COM reports that the EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding is planning to introduce a European Contract Law to govern cross-border distance selling. According to Ms. Reding, such laws “ would exist in parallel to the national contract laws and provide standard terms and conditions ”.…

The decree setting out the technical and functional requirements of the videolottery machines has been finally published on the Official Gazette. As anticipated in the previous posts , videolotteries are expected to be the biggest innovation in the Italian gaming market in 2010. Indeed, the maximum wins of € 500,000 are likely to attract…

The European Commission has  adopted a new set of standard contractual clauses for transfers of personal data from data controllers in the European Union to data processors located outside the European Union. Under European data protection laws, transfer of personal data to a third country that does not ensure (according to the European Commission) an adequate level…