Commercial

Italian Supreme Court grapples with Consent to Data Processing in a recent case

On 02 July 2018, with judgment no. 17278/2018, the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) took an important stand on the notion of consent to personal data processing for marketing purposes. Let’s see what the case is about and what are the main points of Supreme Court decision.

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New guidelines for EU Financial Institutions moving to Cloud Computing

Prompted by the increasing interest for the use of cloud outsourcing solutions within the banking industry, the European Banking Authority (“EBA“) has recently issued the final recommendations on the use of cloud service providers by financial institutions (“Recommendations“), which will be applicable as of 1 July 2018.

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Cinema and audiovisual media services: a wider protection for EU works

On 2 October 2017, the Italian Council of Ministers approved a new Legislative Decree (“Decree“), aimed at ensuring a wider protection to EU (and Italian) works in the audiovisual media services (“AVMS“) sector. A brief outline of the new provisions is set out below.

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