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ECJ to weigh in on Spanish contest with Google over the application of data protection laws

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union, Spain
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  • March 26 2013

As Google continues its legal battle with the Spanish Data Protection Authority (DPA), the Spanish High Court (Audiencia Nacional) has referred

EU and U.S. sign joint declaration to make Internet safer for children

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • January 29 2013

This post was written by Cynthia O'Donoghue. EU Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes, responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, and U.S

EU announces plans for a cyber-security bill

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union
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  • November 20 2012

At an Information Security Conference on 4 November 2012, the EU Commissioner for a Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, revealed plans to introduce legislation involving the implementation of a high level of network and information security across the EU, effectively extending the obligations to adopt risk management measures to private sector industries such as banking, energy, health and transport

European Commission shows concern over the slow development of the Do-Not-Track standard

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union
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  • November 14 2012

Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, has signalled her concern over the progress of the adoption of the Do-Not-Track (DNT) standard, which is being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a universal mechanism to communicate relevant consent or lack of consent to the tracking of individuals’ web data

CNIL vs. Google, Act IV: Google against the rest of the world of the data protection regulators

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union, France
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  • October 18 2012

We have previously reported on the different requests and repeated questionnaires the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) has sent to Google over the past few months regarding the evaluation of Google’s compliance with applicable European Data Protection Regulation concerning its new integrated privacy policy, as well as the new integrated platform launched March 1, 2012, despite the CNIL’s demand to postpone such launch

Collecting societies under the microscope

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 20 2012

The European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses in the internal market

French CNIL urges Google to postpone the launch of its integrated platform and raises serious doubts about Google's compliance with European data privacy directive

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union
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  • March 1 2012

February 2012 will last as a milestone of an unprecedented fight between the Working Party 29, which comprises the European Data Protection Agencies, and Google

European court moves to protect online selling

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union, France
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  • October 20 2011

Following are links to the decision of the European Court in the Pierre Fabre case (referral from the French Court of Appeal), which concerned an absolute ban on selling products other than in the physical presence of a qualified pharmacist - hence an absolute ban on Internet sales

Article 29 Working Party Opinion 22010 on online behavioural advertising: who wants cookies?

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union
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  • July 13 2010

On June 22, 2010, the influential Article 29 Working Party ("Working Party"), consisting of all the European Union's national data privacy regulators, adopted Opinion 22010 on online behavioural advertising (the "Opinion"

Decision by the European Court of Justice concerning electronic press reviews in accordance with the Directive on Copyright in the Information Society

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Denmark, European Union
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  • September 25 2009

In a referral decision concerning a referral by a Danish court, the European Court of Justice decided on the admissibility of the creation of electronic press reviews in light of Art. 2 and 5 of Directive 200129EC Concerning Copyright in the Information Society on July 16, 2009

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