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…