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In a judgment of 29 November 2012, the General Court of the European Union (EGC) ruled that the refusal of the European Central Bank (ECB) to grant access to documents relating to the economic situation in Greece was lawful. In 2010, a journalist asked the ECB to give her access to two documents dealing with the economic situation in Greece. The first described the economic situation in that country as of March 2010; the second dealt with transactions effected by a company set up by the National Bank of Greece and its content was closely connected to that of the first document. The ECB refused...

On 8 October 2012, Высший Арбитражный суд Российской Федерации (The Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation) adopted at its plenary session Resolution “Об обеспечении гласности в арбитражном процессе” (On Provisions of Glasnost in Commercial Court Procedure). The Resolution instructs the judges (about 4,000 in total) of such courts that text reporting from the court sessions via social media and Internet with the use of personal technical means is allowed without any special permission or notification of the presiding judge or sides of the parties in the proceedings. The Supreme Commercial...

According to media reports, the Landesgericht Korneuburg (Korneuburg Regional Court) dismissed on 8 November 2012 an action brought against RTL by a man from Lower Austria. The plaintiff had been accidentally filmed by the German TV broadcaster in November 2010 during his holiday on the Maldives, subsequently shown without his consent in the programme “Deutschland sucht den Superstar 2011 - Recall” (Germany seeks 2011 superstar - Recall”), and was referred to by one of the presenters as the “monster from the deep”. In order to avoid legal action, RTL paid the 70-year-old plaintiff a lump sum of...

On 20 November 2012 the European Parliament adopted, by a large majority, a resolution inviting the member states of the European Union to step up their protection of children on the Internet. The Council of the European Union presented its conclusions on the subject in December 2011, and the European Commission presented a report on protecting children in the digital world (see IRIS 2011-9/8). The European Parliament Resolution was adopted on the date of the 53^rd anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The main areas for consideration presented in the Parliament’s...

On 29 June 2012, the Austrian Verfassungsgerichtshof (Constitutional Court - VfGH) ruled that the disclosure of the owner of an IP address to the security authorities under Articles 53(3a)(2) and (3) of the Austrian Sicherheitspolizeigesetz (Security Police Act - SPG) did not breach either the secrecy of telecommunications or the right to data protection. The plaintiff had given the impression on an Internet chat site that he was offering under-age children (“7-11 year olds, or even younger if required”) for sex. The Vienna police authorities were informed and took immediate steps to ascertain,...