Apparently phone carriers lost $ 33 bn due to instant messaging apps and after Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp, telecom companies are calling for stringent instant messaging rules, but how are they currently regulated?
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Data Protection & Cybersecurity
Here you can read some articles on Italian and international privacy, cybersecurity and data protection issues drafted by either Giulio Coraggio or the other authors of GamingTechLaw.
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Adding 450 million monthly users to 1.3 bn monthly users costs $19 bn according to Facebook, but also means that the buyer will be able to know about (and benefit from) much more information on its users to be potentially used for advertising purposes. This is what advertisers might be thinking about, but this might be also the concern of the Canadian, the Dutch and the Italian data protection authority that investigated on WhatsApp in 2013.
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€ 1.3 bn is the value of sales from Italian fashion websites in 2013 with an increase year by year of 30+% and considerable potentials for further growth since it represents only 20% of the total value of the Italian B2C e-commerce sector. These are some of the topics together with wearable technology issues impacting on the Internet of Things covered in the very interesting #Fashiononline event that took place in Milan (Italy).
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The Italian Data Protection Authority just launched a consultation on privacy-related obligations applicable to remote mobile payments that is based on draft regulations attached to the consultation document.