Giulio Coraggio
The court of Varese (Italy) held that a blogger was liable of the defamation crime because of the comments published by some of her users on a forum available on her blog since as administrator of the blog she had the " availability" of the website which triggered a liability for both the contents published…
The Italian betting exchange regulations have been just published on the Official Gazette and will soon come into force. But the question is what will be the effect of betting exchange games in the Italian market?
Betting exchange regulations provide a platform certification and approval process along the lines of what already prescribed for casino…
The Italian Advertising Self-Regulatory Court deemed the TV ad of a major remote gaming licensed casino operator in breach of the recently introduced provisions of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Code on gambling advertising. The TV ad concerned the recently launched online slots showing a player gambling during the night with his PC and…
The Italian Supreme Court convicted for the crime of identity theft a person that had created on an erotic chat a nickname with the initials of her former employer also providing her mobile number. The defendant had argued that the crime did not arise because she had not pretended to be the claimant.…
Ryanair has been sanctioned to the payment of an € 400K fine as their advertised flight fares were not inclusive of an additional cost for the usage of credit cards whose charging has been in any case deemed in breach of applicable regulations. The Italian competition authority which has jurisdiction also on misleading…
The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) after a long consultation has finally published its decision on the measures to be taken in case of data breaches by telecom and Internet operators implementing the Directive 2009/136/CE. Telephone and internet service providers shall notify the DPA of any breach of personal data stored in…
Ts&Cs of e-books platforms excluding warranties for the e-books sold or for the download of movies have been deemed in b reach of regulations on unfair terms in consumer contracts and therefore not valid. As previously mentioned, the Italian competition authority has also jurisdiction on the qualification as "unfair" (and therefore null…
AAMS has published the new protocol of communication that will regulate the offering of bingo games under the new regulations which will shortly come into force, but more interestingly AAMS published some FAQs on the future of Italian bingo regulations.
As expected, the general impression is that AAMS is still willing to keep bingo…
Mobile payment is more and more in the radar of IT companies and even Apple apparently will launch soon their mobile payment platform. However, what regulatory restrictions are applicable to the after the EU PSD Directive? In particular, mobile carriers and providers of services are willing to enable their users…