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Italy: Marketing Privacy Consent – Is Double Opt-In Now Mandatory?

DLA Piper on 7/8/2025

A recent and far-reaching decision by the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) has significantly altered the rules governing marketing privacy consent in Italy, introducing a potential obligation to adopt a double...more

Marketing to Children: An Excerpt from the Advertising Law Tool Kit

Venable LLP on 11/15/2024

Join us as we spotlight select chapters of Venable’s popular Advertising Law Tool Kit, which helps marketing teams navigate the legal risk of campaigns and promotions....more

Italy finally implements the new Do Not Call Register regulation

Hogan Lovells on 4/7/2022

The regulation, approved with Presidential Decree of 27 January 2022 no. 26 and published on the Official Gazette of 29 March 2022 ("Regulation"), extends the scope of application of the Do Not Call Register ("DNCR") to all...more

Voice Analysis Complicates Personal Privacy

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/29/2021

Most biometric readings require your presence in the same space as the measuring tools. Facial recognition, retinal capture, fingerprints or hand geometry, even biomarked scents are measured in close physical proximity. The...more

What Can Marketers Learn from COVID-19 Privacy Considerations?

Rumberger | Kirk on 10/6/2020

Contact-tracing during COVID-19 raises data privacy implications for restaurants. It cannot be argued that COVID-19 is anything but a gut-punch to the restaurant industry. Projections for business sustainability are low...more

Continuing GDPR Pressure for Adtech

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 8/6/2019

Data protection authorities (DPAs) in the European Union (EU) continue to scrutinize practices in the adtech sector for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection and...more

IP Addresses as Personal Data – Website Providers To Come Under Even More Scrutiny With EU Data Privacy Law

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 5/17/2016

Website providers that collect dynamic Internet Protocol addresses (“IP address”) from website visitors may soon be subject to even more scrutiny from data protection authorities in the EU. Last week, Europe’s Advocate...more

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