AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING THE GUIDELINES FOR THE ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATION OF INFORMATION AND ADVERTISING

In the Federal Official Gazette of July 24, 2012, the Agreement establishing the Guidelines for the Analysis and Verification of Information and Advertising, issued by the Federal Consumer Protection Agency (PROFECO), was published, which entered into force on August 23, 2012.

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AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT WINS TOBACCO PLAIN PACKAGING FIGHT 

Authors: Peter Le Guay & Lai Lynn Choong, Thomsons Lawyers 

In our March 2012 update on the new Australian plain packaging laws for tobacco products, we reported on the commencement of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (Act) and the related Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Act 2011 and Tobacco Plain Packaging Regulations 2011.

The new plain packaging laws requires tobacco products to be sold in olive green packs with brand names presented in a mandated font and size...

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ITALIAN DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITY PROVIDES GUIDANCE FOR CLOUD SERVICES

Author: Avv. Felix Hofer, Hofer Lösch Torricelli

The increasing - not to say booming - popularity of cloud computing has induced the Italian DPA to provide businesses processing personal data in the context of their activities with specific guidelines for the correct handling of such data when making use of cloud services. 

To the purpose the DPA has offered guidance by providing users of cloud services with ten golden rules, which may be summarized as follows...

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