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Internet of Things and telecom law issues

Internet of Things technologies require the communication between devices on telecom networks that vary depending on the type of service provided. Such communications in some cases lead to telecom law issues in relation to the possibility to use the relevant telecom network and obligations triggered by such usage. These are among the issues that the Italian telecom authority, AGCOM and the UK telecom authority, OFCOM, will be discussing during the current consultation on the Internet of Things.

ByGiulio CoraggioAugust 25, 20140Comments 5 minRead time

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Data protection issues for Google trouble BIG DATA businesses

Data protection issues for Google in Italy are not over. The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has now challenged their privacy information notice requiring - among others - an express consent from users to their profiling for marketing purposes leading to issues that might impact any business based on the processing of BIG DATA such as the Internet of Things and in general on behavioural advertising.

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 22, 20140Comments 8 minRead time

Commercial

Standardisation for SLAs of cloud outsourcing agreements

The European Commission issued standardization guidelines for cloud computing service level agreements with the goal of improving consistency in service level agreements at the global level to be used by entities willing to enter into outsourcing agreements with cloud providers.

ByGiulio CoraggioJuly 7, 20140Comments 8 minRead time

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Data protection rules for mobile payments

Mobile payments are now subject to more stringent privacy obligations as a consequence of the decision of the Italian Data Protection Authority subsequent to the consultation previously covered.

ByGiulio CoraggioJune 24, 20140Comments 4 minRead time

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

New rules on biometric data, and the Internet of Things?

New rules on the usage of biometric data issued by the Italian data protection authority (the "Garante" or "DPA") are meant to clarify the applicable obligations with the purpose to ease the adoption of technologies relying on them in connection for instance to mobile devices and therefore also of wearable technologies part of the Internet of Things. However, such rules, that are now subject to an open consultation, set stringent obligations in their processing that might require improvements to avoid they reppresent a barrier for the launch of new products.

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 26, 20140Comments 4 minRead time

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Google data protection issues with right to be forgotten

Google data protection issues might increase as a consequence of the ruling of the European Court of Justice that obliged search engines to remove the link between search results and a webpage if it contains information the individual deems should be "forgotten". But it is argued that this decision might have relevant consequences also for the development of technologies based on Big Data including Internet of Things and wearable technologies.

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 16, 20140Comments 7 minRead time

Data Protection & Cybersecurity Technology

Interesting legal issues at Wired Next Fest 2014

The tech gurus in Milan are very excited since next week-end there will be the Wired Next Fest which will cover some of the most relevant technology matters currently discussed. Interestingly some of such legal issues have been covered in my articles on this blog.

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 15, 20140Comments 4 minRead time

My presentations

Below are some of my presentations arranged by me Giulio Coraggio that might be of interest Come gestire le problematiche privacy dell'emergenza Covid-19 in Italia Artificial intelligence - Not the evil, but the New Electricity * * * One year of GDPR, what happened and what to expect! …

ByGiulio CoraggioMay 3, 20140Comments 5 minRead time

Technology

Google Glass will read our emotions?

An App might shortly allow Google Glass users to read the sentiments of people they are talking to as part of a wearable technology project run by a US start-up Emotient. However, this project might face some data protection issues affecting the sector of wearable technologies and of the Internet of Things.

ByGiulio CoraggioMarch 12, 20140Comments 4 minRead time

Data Protection & Cybersecurity

WhatsApp plus Facebook, what data protection issues?

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.

ByGiulio CoraggioFebruary 21, 20140Comments 3 minRead time