Fox Rothschild LLP (LexBlog Italy)

Would it even be the Super Bowl if there wasn’t a blog post asking about your favorite commercials? Are your top choices dictated by the product, the celebrity, or the content? Did you prefer the spoofs on something familiar or the entirely new and unexpected? I look forward to this debate every year. It all...

On June 11, 2022, Plaintiffs Matthew Sinatro and Jessica Prost filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against the Barilla pasta company over alleged false advertising. The plaintiffs claim Barilla deliberately deceives shoppers into believing fifty-four of Barilla’s pasta products are made in Italy by labeling some pastas as “ITALY’S #1...

Narkis Golan, a US citizen married Isacco Saada, an Italian citizen while both were in Italy in August, 2015. While there they had a child 2016. Two years later, under the pretense of attending a wedding, Golan flew to the United States with the child and moved into a shelter in New York. Saada filed...

According to Italian Data Protection Authority Garante Per La Protezione Dei Dati Personale, The COVID-19 emergency does not automatically, and in itself, represent a sufficient legal basis for particularly invasive data processing, such as data processing aimed at allowing contact tracing by any public or private owner. At present, the only processing of personal data...

Italy’s Garante and France’s CNIL publish updated guidelines on privacy in the workplace as workplaces are opening up for a phased return to normal. Per CNIL: Automatic collection of temperature (e.g. by thermal cameras) is not allowed Taking temperature by means of a manual thermometer (such as for example of infrared type without contact) at...

Italy’s data protection agency, Italian Garante, has offered its opinion on a regulatory proposal for the creation of a COVID-19 tracing app. The proposed contact tracing system does not appear to conflict with the principles of personal data protection in that it: Specifies in sufficient detail the type of data collected, guarantees given to the...

Italy, which is currently dealing with the most serious COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, weighs in on health data and GDPR . Employers should NOT: systematically collect (e.g. through specific requests to employees or unauthorized investigations) information on the presence of any flu symptoms or travel of employees or closest contacts. This means do not: collect...

Caveat Data Processor. Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante, has issued a 50,000 EUR fine against a data processor platform for its failures to implement several information security measures. Service providers should ensure that the data entrusted to them by their data controller customers is adequately protected. Some specific measures addressed by Garante: conducting periodic...

In recent art world news, earlier this month the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art of Turin, Italy announced an agreement with the Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte to maintain and display the impressive but largely unknown private collection of the late Francesco Federico Cerruti of 13th– to 20th-century treasures.  Cerruti was a reclusive...

Europe’s highest court, The Court of Justice of the European Union, has just ruled that Italy has failed to fully extend to all disabled employees the necessary protections which the EU Council has held to be consistent with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In particular, in response to a lawsuit...