Excelente reporte sobre el estado de situación de los datos personales en la Unión Europea. Los casos Costeja (derecho al olvido), Schrems (Safe Harbour con EEUU), Facebook y su tratamiento de datos en Bélgica, y Google con las acusaciones de defensa de la competencia.

Nota de Expansión sobre datos personales en Europa

Resumen del Proyecto de Directiva de la Unión Europea de Protección de Datos

El Tribunal Superior de la Unión Europea viene a tallar el derecho de privacidad de los europeos al no reconocer la validez del acuerdo suscripto entre la Unión Europea y Estados Unidos sobre transferencia de datos personales de ciudadanos europeos. Habrá que analizar los impactos. Tener en cuenta que Argentina está en la misma situación de reconocimiento del marco legal sobre protección de datos personales que la Unión Europea.

El fallo completo de la Unión Europea rechazando el Safe Harbour entre la Unión Europea y los Estados Unidos

Cambio de estrategia fiscal en Europa para las tecnológicas americanas (Amazon, Apple y Google).

Nota de El Paìs sobre pormenores tributarios de las grandes compañías americanas.

España cambió el sistema de comercialización de los derechos audiovisuales, a cargo de cada club y favoreciendo de esta forma a los clubes más poderosos, para pasar a un régimen centralizado de negociación como rige en la mayoría de los países.

Explicación de ABC sobre los alcances del Real Decreto que modifica el sistema de reparto del dinero de la televisación del fútbol en España.

En consonancia con la nueva regulación de la FIFA sobre intermediarios o agentes la RFEF también ha dictado la suya pero con la duda si resulta aplicable el límite del 3% para la retribución de los intermediarios.

Reglamento-Intermediarios-de la Real Federación Española de Fútbol.

European Court of Justice in Rynes case considered that Data protection regime should apply to private use of CCTV cameras

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/dec/11/home-surveillance-cctv-images-may-breach-data-protection-rules-european-court-judgment-says

This recent European Court of Justice judgment relates to the application of data protection principles to private individuals using CCTV cameras to protect their property. Under article 3(2) of the Directive, the data protection principles do not apply where personal data is processed for “purely personal or household affairs.” Previously, the Information Commissioner had considered that this exception, as transposed into section 36 of the Data Protection Act 1998, was relatively broad. He is now reconsidering his position.

The facts before the court

Mr Ryneš’ home had been the subject of attacks by unknown persons which had prompted him to install a CCTV camera. This was attached to his house to record the entrance to his home and the public footpath. The camera ran on a continuous loop recording data until full and then recording over it. His home was subject to another attack after the installation of the camera and he gave the recording to the police to prosecute the offenders. One of the offenders resisted the prosecution on the basis that the surveillance system was not lawful and the national court (in the Czech Republic) referred the question to the Court of Justice to clarify the application of the European Data Protection Directive 1995 (the Directive) to these circumstances.

Finding of the court

The court found that the operation of a CCTV camera system on which images of the public are stored on a continuous recording device (such as a hard disk drive) installed by an individual on his family home for the purposes of protecting the property, health and life of the home owners, but which also monitors a public space, does not amount to the processing of data in the course of a purely personal or household activity. Therefore, in short, the use of CCTV in these circumstances is not exempt from the various protections of the Directive.

Although the Directive takes into account the legitimate interests of the owner such as the protection of property, health and life, as an exception to the right to respect for privacy, the court considered that it must be narrowly interpreted.

What this means for domestic CCTV operators

Watch this space. In his first Annual Report, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner identified the use of CCTV within the domestic context as his first future challenge. Just 1 in every 70 CCTV cameras is state owned and with CCTV systems available on the high street from as little as £100, the Surveillance Commissioner noted an upsurge in complaints about the use of domestic CCTV cameras.

The Information Commissioner is currently reviewing his guidance in light of this judgment. However, in the meantime, it is clear that CCTV surveillance which even partially covers a public space and is directed outwards from the private setting of the person must comply with the data protection principles. This is not necessarily straightforward, especially when applying the principles to the domestic context. However, as set out in the Information Commissioner’s code of practice, compliance includes the following:

• Clear information available to anyone who may be captured by the system about the identity and contact details of the operator and the purpose of the CCTV surveillance;
• A process by which anyone captured on the system can access the data;
• Notification to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office) before they are set up.

In Big Data era the privacy by consent principle shall be replaced by privacy by accountability

In the ‘big data’ era the principle of ‘privacy by consent’ has become increasingly meaningless and should be replaced by ‘privacy by accountability’ including stricter means of holding companies accountable for how they use data (Mayer-Schönberger,. 

Mayer-Schönberger has argued that in the age of big data much of data’s value is in secondary uses that were not foreseen when the data was collected. Hence, data protection should place less emphasis on data collection and more on the subsequent uses of data. Data is no longer collected based on a specific purpose and an informed user consent, on the contrary, the purpose of collecting the data is frequently formulated in broad generic terms and accepted by the user with limited sense of what the consent implies. 

“The ability to capture personal data is often built deep into the tools we use every day, from Web sites to smartphone apps” (Ibid: xx). Coupled with the fact that personal data represents commercial value to an extent not previously seen, it makes no sense to rely on user content as the primary data protection mechanism, the argument goes.

 In consequence, Mayer-Schönberger suggests to focus on increased accountability for the companies that use data and to increase the power of data protection authorities as safeguards between the individual and data processing companies such as Facebook. 

Silicon Valley utopians are selling us dreams of outlandish autonomous cars and “smart” homes. They are teasing us with windowless planes and 3D-printed food. "Newspapers report breathlessly on companies working to “cure death.” We seem to swallow all of these publicity-friendly confections, to accept them as if the future were written and would be here soon enough. Yet we are still debating the role of social networks in steering real-world conversations."

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Germany is not the best place for Google as it is requested to reveal its main secret for success (search algorithm).

http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-wants-google-to-reveal-its-search-algorithm-2014-9

Big Data and Football. The way Germany used Big Data to win the last World Cup.

Germanys 12th man at the World Cup.Big Data

Germanys World Cup tactics shaped by data.

It´s not easy to implement the European Right to be Forgotten. Here is a manifiesto with 5 principles to be included.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/a-manifesto-for-the-future-of-the-right-to-be-forgotten-debate

France is the first in request for-right-to-be-forgotten-removals-from-google Second Genmany and Third UK.

I wish not to have 3,000 diary readers from Russia because I may get in trouble with the new draconian law.

BBC´s explanation of the scope of the recent enacted Russian Internet law.

Other law that may arise in the near future requesting to store data from Russians in Russia.

La Unión Europea ha preparado un documento con lineamientos a ser aplicados en relación a los niveles de servicio correspondientes a los acuerdos de Cloud Computing.

El documento en inglés sobre la estandarización de parámetros sobre niveles de servicios aplicables a los contratos de cloud computing

The right to be forgotten was imposed to Google by the European Tribunal

Opinion in New York Times explaining the risk that should be facing freedom of speech due to this obligation to delete certain contents in Internet

El Tribunal Supremo Español ha dictado dos fallos muy relevantes para el derecho del fútbol. En el caso Baena acerca de los contratos de formación y en el restante sobre el derecho a cobrar indemnización por los deportistas profesionales frente a la extinción de contrato por vencimiento del plazo.

Comentario de Rodriguez Ten sobre la sentencia Baena.

Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo sobre _derecho a indemnizacion_en_caso de vencimiento del contrato

Nespresso faces some problems with French antitrust authorities.

http://qz.com/200161/someone-is-finally-forcing-nespresso-to-open-source-its-coffee-pods/

Scope of the Agreement reached by Nestle with French antitrust authorities.

La semana pasada han surgido dos incidentes muy graves de xenofobia que han merecido diferentes tipos de sanciones. En un caso económica y social por haberse individualizado al agresor, en cambio en el caso de Alves hubo un masivo apoyo al jugador por parte del ambiente del deporte. Tampoco se justifica que por el acto de un espectador inadaptado deba pagar la entidad deportiva.

La ruda discriminación del dueño de la franquicia de los Los Angeles Clippers.

Explicación de la sanción aplicada por el Villareal al espectador que lanzó banana a Dani Alves.

Preliminary opinion by European Data Protection Supervisor about Big Data privacy, consumer rights and competition.

See the link to the preliminary opinion.

The right to be forgotten on line.

http://footnote1.com/online-privacy-the-right-to-be-forgotten-4/



Jeffrey Rossen explains the differences between Europe and America in the right to be forgotten.