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How the cookie crumbles: a clash of cultures on cookie regulation

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • November 3 2011

The Article 29 Working Party has met with Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe and European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) representatives to tell them in no uncertain terms that their otherwise well-received Best Practice Recommendation (BPR) and Framework on Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) does not comply with the revised e-Privacy Directive provisions on cookies

European Working Party provides opinion on exemptions to cookie consent

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • July 5 2012

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has released an opinion on the exemptions to the requirement to obtain consent prior to placing small data files (cookies) on computers of website users, arising from Article 5(3) of the E-Privacy Directive (200258EC, as amended by the Citizen’s Rights Directive (2009136EC

EU regulators question online advertisement

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • April 11 2008

EU national privacy regulators have touched upon the issue of the use of personal data by search engines for the purposes of online advertising

Privacy, profiling and targeting

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • June 1 2009

The collection and storage of user data by online service providers has become controversial

No disclosure of personal data in civil proceedings

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Spain
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  • February 1 2008

Promusicae, a Spanish collecting society holding exploitation rights to musical and audiovisual recordings, was seeking an order before a Spanish court to require Telefónica to disclose the identities and addresses of certain of its customers

ENISA concerns over MySpace and other online social networks

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • November 28 2007

The recently established European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has issued a Position Paper that identifies 15 specific security threats arising from the use of social networks such as MySpace

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000: inadequate safeguards and sanctions

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 15 2010

On 29 October 2009, the European Commission announced that it has moved to the second phase of the infringement proceedings against the United Kingdom for failing to implement EU e-privacy and data protection rules relating to the privacy of online communications

Social networking sites challenged over privacy standards

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • June 30 2010

The Article 29 Working Party, the EU advisory body on data protection and privacy, has sent letters to 20 social networking service (SNS) providers that signed up to the Safer Social Networking Principles for the European Union, raising issues concerning privacy standards on social networking platforms

European Commission consultation on the future of electronic commerce

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • November 4 2010

Electronic Commerce amounts to less than 2 per cent of total retail service sales in the European Union

SNS data protection and e privacy compliance

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • July 29 2009

The Article 29 Working Party has given social networking service (SNS) providers quite a bit to think about with its Opinion 52009 on online social networking adopted on 12 June 2009