Autonomous delivery vehicles will be allowed on Virginia sidewalks starting from July 1

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
Autonomous delivery robots will be legal on Virginia sidewalks starting July 1, with approval from local city councils. Sen. Bill DeSteph introduced SB 1207 in the Virginia Senate. An identical bill, HB 2016, was introduced in the House by Del. Ron Villanueva. On June 1, 2017, Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed the bill into legislation. See here. and SB 1207 Electric personal delivery devices; operation on sidewalks and shared-use paths is available at http://lis.virginia.gov… HB Read more [...]

SCOTUS to decide whether a warrant is needed to obtain location data from cellphone carriers

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On June 5, 2017, the Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the decision by the Sixth Circuit holding that the protection granted under the Fourth Amendment did not prevent the government to access business records from the defendants’ wireless carriers revealing the user’s location without obtaining a warrant. In Carpenter v. United States Timothy Carpenter and Timothy Sanders were convicted of nine armed robberies. The government’s evidence at trial included business Read more [...]

Spanish DPA approves Data Protection Code for big data

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On May 11, 2017, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (DPA), the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and ISMS Forum Spain, a not for profit, published a Big Data privacy code of conduct, the Código de buenas prácticas en protección de datos para proyectos de Big Data. The Code refers to Regulation 2016/679, the s.c. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and it gives guidance to entities implementing big data projects. More information on the GDPR is available at www.technethics.com Originally Read more [...]

Italian DPA issued order allowing tracking of employees through their smartphones

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On May 18, 2016, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali) issued an order allowing for the processing of personal geo-localization data collected through the employees’ smartphones. An Italian company, SITE S.p.A., submitted a preliminary request for examination of the DPA with reference to the processing of personal data gathered by activating a geo-location application installed on the company’s smartphones supplied to the employees working Read more [...]