The Oracle saga: Auditing software publishers, bad faith and disloyalty Two years after the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance ruling, the Paris Court of Appeal has found Oracle guilty of bad faith and disloyalty. As a reminder, at first instance, Oracle had argued that Purchasing software was not part of its ... Read more
The Senate adopts the Bill for a Digital Republic On 28 September, the Senate adopted the Bill for a Digital Republic. The government's aim in adopting this law was to achieve two major objectives: "to give France a head start in the digital field, whether in terms of ... Read more
The sale of computers with pre-installed software is not an unfair commercial practice The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled on the issue of the sale of computers with pre-installed software, thereby validating the interpretation of French case law from 2014 which called to order judges inclined to equate the sale of computers with pre-installed ... Read more
In a decision dated 12 July 2016, the European Commission adopted the "Privacy Shield" adequacy decision, which aims to replace the "Safe Harbour" invalidated by the Court of Justice of the European Union on 6 October 2015. This decision authorises the transfer of personal data from the European Union to companies established in ... Read more
This decision was eagerly awaited following Microsoft's appeal against the search warrant ordering it to provide the contents of a non-US customer's email account hosted in Ireland. In December 2013, at the request of federal prosecutors, a US federal judge issued a search warrant for Microsoft's email account in ... Read more
No access by a beneficiary to the personal data of a deceased person In a decision dated 8 June 2016, the Conseil d'Etat ruled on the definition of "data subject" within the meaning of Article 2 of the 1978 Data Protection Act (Loi informatique et libertés - LIL), ruling that it could not include the successor in title of a deceased person. ... Read more
After four years of intensive work, the European Parliament adopted the new Regulation on the protection of personal data on 14 April 2016. The parliamentarians wanted the regulation to be "future-proof", in particular by being neutral in terms of technologies and adapted to Big Data, in order to be applicable to ... Read more
In a ruling handed down on 12 February 2016, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled that the jurisdiction clause in Facebook's general terms and conditions of use, which gives jurisdiction to the courts of the State of California (US), constitutes an unfair clause. The Court of Appeal ruled that: the Internet user who sued Facebook to obtain jurisdiction over his ... Read more
In a ruling dated 14 January 2016, the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance (High Court) ruled that it had jurisdiction in a dispute concerning the infringement of a French trademark by an Italian company on its Italian website. The Court found that the Italian website was aimed at a French audience and therefore presented a ... Read more
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