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As a rule, the employer’s ability to collect employee’s health records is very limited. The COVID-19 virus outbreak has created an unprecedented situation in which virtually almost every employer needs information on employee’s health more than ever. This is to ensure workplace safety, but also to deal with reputational damage as soon as possible when it becomes Read more

Cameras can be found on almost every street corner, near building entrances as well as indoors, and we are greatly accustomed to their presence. However, using cameras is regulated to a much wider extent and in greater detail than one would think at first glance. As for legal regulation, we must address the General Data Read more

A bit more than a year ago, on 25.05.2018, new rules for data protection, i.e. the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR) was applied. Below are described five main events which occurred within the past year regarding the application of the EU Regulation. Read more

In our earlier publication, we wrote that last summer the Estonian court asked the European Court of Justice a question related to the online sales of counterfeit goods and who can be held responsible for such activities. By now, the European Court of Justice has given its reply. Read more

The European Court of Human Rights passed a judgement in a case last year where the main issue was whether or not the court had ordered excessively large compensation for non-pecuniary damage for defamation. More precisely, was the 1,25 million euros ordered by the Court of Justice of Ireland too big a sum for publishing Read more

Mr. Manni was a director of Italiana Costruzioni Srl, an Italian building company that was awarded a contract for the construction of a tourist complex. He found out that he was losing clients who performed background checks of the company. Read more

When lodging an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) it is important to keep in mind that it is a formal and quite complex procedure where even one small mistake can cost you your right to even recourse to the Court. In addition, ECHR is not a court of fourth instance and Read more

While the internet has made it easier for people around the world to communicate, it has also created opportunities for widespread infringement of rights, including by the publishing of false statements. Individual about whom the false information is published can be physically thousands of kilometers away from the offender. Read more

In December 2015, Russia adopted a law that gave the Constitutional Court of Russia a right to decide if a decision of the European Court of Human Rights is in conformity with the Russian Constitution and, thus, a right to forbid the enforcement of European Court of Human Rights decisions in Russia. Most probably the Read more

We encounter copyrights constantly and unavoidably in our everyday life. Entrepreneurs need to be especially well-informed because lack of attention to copyrights may cost them dearly later. Read more