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As announced in September 2021 by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the Union Speech: “Media companies cannot be treated as just another business. Their independence is essential. Europe needs a law that safeguards this independence - and the Commission will deliver a Media Freedom Act in the next year”.  A proposal for a Regulation establishing a common framework for media services in the internal market (Media Freedom Act — EMFA) was released by the European Commission on 16 September 2022. The EMFA proposal lays down a common...

On 26 January 2022, the European Commission published an important proposal for a European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles, designed to ensure that the rights and freedoms enshrined in the EU legal framework, and the European values expressed by the principles, are respected in the online environment. Importantly, the Declaration will take the form of a joint solemn declaration, to be signed by the European Parliament, the Council, and the Commission. The Commission has now invited the Parliament and Council to discuss the draft Declaration, and “endorse it at the highest level”...

On 16 February 2022, the Rechtbank Amsterdam (District Court of Amsterdam) delivered an important judgment regarding user-generated content posted without prior consent on video-platforms hosting adult content. The case was filed as a class action lawsuit instigated by Stichting Stop Online Shaming (Stop Online Shaming Foundation — SOS), representing the interests of victims of online privacy infringements, and Stichting Expertisebureau Online Kindermisbruik (Online Child Abuse Expertise Centre Foundation), concerned with preventing and countering (online) child abuse...

On 3 March 2022, the Commissariaat voor de Media (Dutch Media Authority) announced that the recently-established Digital Regulation Cooperation Platform (SDT) has opened its first investigation into effective online transparency and the use of internet users' data. The SDT is a first-ever regulatory collaboration between the Dutch Media Authority, Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets, the Dutch Data Protection Authority, and the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets. The SDT was established to strengthen the supervision of digital activities, and strengthen enforcement...

Legislative Decree No. 196/2003 (“Italian Data Protection Code”) has been recently amended. Specifically, Law Decree No. 139/2021 (as enacted and amended by Law No. 205/2021) introduced Section 144-bis, which provides a high-speed reporting system for revenge porn victims. Under Section 144-bis, part 1 of the Italian Data Protection Code, anyone, including minors over 14 years old, who has a well-founded reason to believe that audio recordings, images, videos or other IT documents with sexually explicit content concerning them, and intended to remain private, might be sent, delivered,...