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Providers' liabilities in the new EU Data Protection Regulation: A threat to Internet freedoms?

Author(s) -

Giovanni Sartor

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

international data privacy law

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.371

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 2044-4001

pISSN - 2044-3994

DOI - 10.1093/idpl/ips034

Subject(s) - general data protection regulation , sanctions , data protection act 1998 , internet privacy , commission , business , upload , the internet , european commission , computer security , law and economics , european union , political science , law , computer science , international trade , economics , world wide web , finance

In this paper I shall consider certain aspects of the Proposal for a Data Protection Regulation recently advanced by the EU Commission, which is meant to substitute the existing Data Protection Directive as well as the national laws implementing it. In particular I shall examine how the Regulation addresses host providers' liabilities and duties with regard to user-generated content. For this purpose, I shall first highlight some developments in web and cloud services, then I shall consider how web hosting is currently regulated, and finally I shall critically assess the novelties brought about by the Regulation.

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