Le droit et les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication
On the 4th of July (!), the lower house of the Russian parliament (the State Duma), approved by 325 votes against 65 a bill obliging foreign Internet companies to store Russian citizens’ personal data on servers within the Russian Federation.
1. When will this new law come into action?
The law, signed the 22th of July also by the President Vladimir Putin and still awaiting the approval of the upper house, the Federation Council would come into force Sept. 1, 2016 giving both foreign and domestic internet companies enough time to create data-storage facilities in Russia.
2. To whom will this law apply to?
The law will apply to social networking, messaging services (e-mail), foreign search engines (e.g. Google) and any company that stores data from (or about) a Russian citizen (online booking, social networks, procurement Services, consulates of foreign embassies, VPN). They will be required to « ensure registration, systematization, accumulation, storage, updating and retrieval of personal data” of Russian citizens via a server built and approved by the government. So, in order to continue to operate in Russia, they will be required to transfer some of their servers within the country. (suite…)
Mi-mai, le moteur de recherche Google a été contraint par la Cour de Justice Européenne à appliquer « le droit à l’oubli« .
Ce droit permet à des internautes de faire supprimer de recherches Google des pages qui contiennent des informations sur eux non pertinentes voir sensibles. Les premiers médias à publier des articles alarmistes sur le sujet sont la BBC et le Guardian. Les deux médias britanniques expliquaient que Google les a juste informés du déréférencement de certains de leurs articles en application du « droit à l’oubli » sans leur donner la possibilité de « faire recours » à cette décision. (suite…)
In a few months, Amazon won’t be able to offer free shipping for books in order to protect independent bookstores.
After an unanimous vote at the Senate, the French Parliament has finally adopted of June, the law project on the price of books on the Internet, called « anti-Amazon », prohibiting the combination of free shipping and a discount 5%. This text on the 26th intends to prevent online operators such as Amazon, to stifle the network of booksellers, who struggle to compete. (suite…)
« Si la directive sur le droit d’auteur ne permet pas aux États membres d’autoriser les utilisateurs à stocker sur une clé USB le livre numérisé par la bibliothèque, elle ne s’oppose pas, en principe, à une impression du livre à titre de copie privée* ».
En vertu de la directive sur le droit d’auteur** les États membres doivent accorder aux auteurs le droit exclusif d’autoriser ou d’interdire la reproduction et la communication au public de leurs œuvres. Toutefois, la directive permet aux États membres de prévoir certaines exceptions ou limitations à ce droit. Une telle option existe notamment pour les bibliothèques accessibles au public qui, à des fins de recherches ou d’études privées, mettent des œuvres de leur collection à la disposition des utilisateurs au moyen de terminaux spécialisés. (suite…)
La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a annoncé que les droits des personnes, dont la vie privée est violée, l’emportent sur l’intérêt public général. 
Le tribunal de l’Union européenne a rendu sa décision le 13 mai 2014 en faveur des partisans du droit à la vie privée, en statuant qu’il peut être requis par Google de supprimer les informations sensibles à partir des résultats de recherches sur Internet. (suite…)
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled directives in favor of the EU’s Citizen against Google.
It begins on 2010, a Spanish citizen named Mario Costeja Gonzales who sued Google and asked to have links to his private data -that pointed to 1998 newspaper article that detailed his social security debts- deleted from the search results. The Spaniard claims Google has violated his data protection rights by putting an outdated and an inadequate information links.
This simple private case made its way until it comes before the ECJ and it becomes a turning point in the field of protecting individual’s privacy and personal data. Accordingly, it has enormous implications because the ECJ obliged Google to respect citizen’s requests to remove data under penalty of being enabled to continue operating in Europe. The highest court in Europe mandate that European citizens have a say in what Google can disclose in search results and at the same time, asserts that Google is technically responsible for the links it provides in its search results. Google is no longer a processor of information; it is more established as a high qualified controller of information. (suite…)
Bulgaria is one of the newest members of the EU family. As it often happens in such situations, since its recent accession in 2007 IT and ICT sectors have grown and thrived rapidly. A recent World Bank global report shows ICT expenditure in Bulgaria rising to 6.5% of GDP.
Outlines
Bulgaria’s IT sector has seen an average annual increase of 17% since 2007. Among the fastest growing sectors are software development and outsourcing. It has one of the highest added values in Bulgaria’s national economy. (suite…)
