Irish High Court to decide whether to ask ECJ to issue preliminary ruling on Model Clauses vis-a-vis Safe Harbor decision

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
Starting on February 7, 2017, the Irish High Court will hear a case brought by the Irish Data Protection Authority (DPA) against Facebook Ireland Ltd and Mr Schrems over EU-US data transfers after the Snowden disclosures. After the ECJ invalidated the “Safe Harbor” decision, Facebook performed its data transfer to the US using the “Model Clauses”. Mr. Schrems requested the suspension of data flow from the Irish DPA on the assumption that standard contractual clauses (SCCs) “do Read more [...]

German prosecutors are investigating Facebook for not deleting hate posts

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On November 4, 2016, Der Spiegel, a German newspaper, reported about an ongoing investigation on Facebook over hate posts. According to the complaint filed in Hamburg, Facebook is allegedly not removing illegal content, such as racist or violent posts, from its pages - even after being requested to do so. More information is available here in English.   Originally published on Technethics in January 2017 Read more [...]

La Corte Suprema USA del New Mexico ricorda ai propri giudici di evitare qualsiasi comportamento inappropriato o che possa apparire come tale sui social media

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
Il procedimento in discussione riguarda in via principale la pretesa violazione della  Confrontation Clause (che garantisce il diritto di replica avverso testimonianze contrarie), tuttavia è interessante anche perché l’imputato rivolge l’attenzione alla pubblicazione di messaggi su social media da parte del giudice dinanzi al quale era pendente il processo. I messaggi, pubblicati dal giudice sulla pagina Facebook utilizzata in occasione della propria campagna elettorale, riguardavano il procedimento Read more [...]