Written by Duncan Pithouse, Tim Dawson and Annabel Ashby
The UK Government has released a long awaited consultation document proposing new controls on IT suppliers’ dealings with customers facing insolvency.
To a degree this brings the termination provisions of the UK’s insolvency rescue regimes (administration and company voluntary arrangements) in
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Written by Andrew L. Deutsch, Marc E. Miller and Melissa A. Reinckens
Shortly after its highly publicized loss before the US Supreme Court, which appeared to doom its over-the-air television Internet streaming business, New York-based Aereo shifted to a new legal strategy which it hopes will save its business
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Written by Patrick Van Eecke and Anthony Cornette
June 15, 2014
In an earlier blog post, Patrick Van Eecke and Anthony Cornette discussed the impact of the ECJ Case C-131/12. The authors now provide some further insight on the latest developments relating to the ECJ case on the ‘Right
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Written by Giangiacomo Olivi
June 4, 2014
After a long public consultation process, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, “Garante”) finally issued its decision on the “simplified information notice and cookie consent” (“Cookie Decision”).
With the Cookie Decision, the Garante clarifies the
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WRITTEN BY: Patrick Van Eecke
The Belgian Privacy Commission has finally clarified whether or not, and under which circumstances an employer is allowed to monitor the use of internet, e-mail and other e-communication tools by its employees. Prior to the Commission’s additional guidance in this respect, employees could in principle
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Late last week, in a vote of 51-47, the Senate blocked consideration of Senator Lieberman’s cybersecurity legislation, voting down Sen. Liberman (I.-Conn.) and Sen. Collins (R.-Maine) procedural motion to move forward on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. Among other components of the bill, the would have directed various federal agencies
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Both Vermont and Connecticut recently have amended their data breach security laws, imposing more stringent requirements on entities that experience a data breach. Effective July 1, 2012, under Vermont’s revised data breach law, entities that experience a data breach affecting Vermont consumers now must notify the Attorney General within
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The Federal Government in Australia will soon introduce into Parliament major legislative reforms to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act), according to an announcement made by the Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon during Privacy Awareness Week earlier this month.
The Attorney-General emphasised that the reforms will include changes intended to benefit
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