EU proposes new e-commerce rules to benefit of Digital Single Market

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On May 25, 2016, the EU Commission proposed a new set of legislative measures to “allow consumers and companies to buy and sell products and services online more easily and confidently across the EU”. In order to create a Digital Single Market, the EU Commission intends to boost e-commerce by tackling geoblocking. The proposed legislation shall ensure that consumers seeking to buy products in another EU country (online or in person) “are not discriminated against in terms of access to Read more [...]

Alternatives to Safe Harbor for the transfer of data between the EU and the US

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On May 25, 2016, Schrem's website "Europe v Facebook" (website collecting information regarding class actions against Facebook) released a press update according to which the Irish Data Protection Commissioner may refer another issue to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) i.e., according to the website, whether “Facebook can continue to transfer data from the EU to the US after the invalidation of the 'Safe Harbor' system by the Court on October 6th 2015 and given continues application Read more [...]

French and German antitrust authorities issue joint paper on effect of “data” (and “big data”) on competition

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On May 10, 2016, the French and the German competition law authorities issued a joint paper on competition law and data. The two authorities discussed how the collection, processing, and commercial use of data became a factor in establishing market power. “This paper aims to feed this debate by identifying some of the key issues and parameters that may need to be considered when assessing the interplay between data, market power and competition law”. Section II defines “data” and “big Read more [...]

European American Chamber of Commerce’s event on Privacy Shield

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On May 18, 2016, the European American Chamber of Commerce sponsored a discussion the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Safe Harbor 2.0).  The panel discussed the steps that brought to the agreement between the EU Commission and US Government. More information to this regard is available at http://www.technethics.com... The panel then discussed the key contents of the Privacy Shield. In particular, Krystin Jenci, the Director of the Office of Digital Services Industries, Department of Commerce’s Read more [...]

EU cybersecurity directive one step closer to approval

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
Originally published on http://www.technethics.com... on May 10, 2016 The Network and Information security (NIS) Directive – which was put forward in 2013 by the Commission and aims at increasing cooperation between member states and laying down security obligations for operators of essential services and digital service providers – still awaits for the European Parliament second reading. An informal agreement on the proposal was reached with the Parliament and the deal was confirmed Read more [...]