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New Rules On Consumer Protection Against Personal Data Breaches And Spam, Panagiotis Kitsos, Paraskevi Pappas
New Rules On Consumer Protection Against Personal Data Breaches And Spam, Panagiotis Kitsos, Paraskevi Pappas
Panagiotis Kitsos
On 25 November 2009, the European Parliament and Council adopted a new legislation to revise the regulatory framework for the electronic communications sector. This new “package” of Directives includes Directive 2009/136/EC, which amends earlier Directive 2002/58/EC in the fields of 1. mandatory notification of personal data security breaches 2. consent requirements for cookies and 3. anti-spamming measures by ISPs. The scope of the Directive is to enhance the protection of consumers privacy and personal data in the electronic communications sector, through strengthened security-related provisions and improved enforcement mechanisms by the NRAs. In particular Τhe provisions of the new directive require …
Google Analytics: Analyzing The Latest Wave Of Legal Concerns For Google In The U.S. And The E.U., 7 Buff. Intell. Prop. L.J. 135 (2010), Raizel Liebler, Keidra Chaney
Google Analytics: Analyzing The Latest Wave Of Legal Concerns For Google In The U.S. And The E.U., 7 Buff. Intell. Prop. L.J. 135 (2010), Raizel Liebler, Keidra Chaney
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
The next wave of concern regarding Google involves web analytics. Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of Internet data for the purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. The concerns of web analytics use touches on issues of online user privacy, government use of personal information, and information on website user activity. While Google Analytics is not the sole web analytics product on the market, it is widely used by corporate, non-profit, and government organizations. The product has been reported to have a 59% market share among web analytics vendors in a 2008 study.
Web analytics technology …
American Exceptionalism, The French Exception, Intellectual Property Law, And Peer-To-Peer File Sharing On The Internet, 10 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 95 (2010), Lyombe Eko
UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law
A fundamental problem confronting policy makers is how to apply intellectual property rules and regulations developed for tangible intellectual property assets in real space to intangible,dematerialized intellectual property in cyberspace. The United States and France are self-described exceptionalist countries. American exceptionalism refers to the historical tendency of the United States to emphasize its unique status as the beacon of liberty, while l’exception française (the French exception) refers to the French ideological posture that emphasizes the specificity and superiority of French culture. American exceptionalism and l’exception française are functionally equivalent theoretical constructs that describe and explain how the United States and …