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In recent years many companies have abandoned traditional time clocks in favour of app-based attendance systems built on employee geolocation. Workers clock in and out from their own smartphone or tablet, and the system associates with each punch, in addition to the time, the geographic position detected at that precise moment via GPS, Wi-Fi or mobile data...

The Digital Services Act (DSA) is the European regulation on digital services, approved by the European Parliament on 5 July 2022 and definitively adopted by the Council on 4 October 2022 (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065), to protect users and ensure a...

Since Argo Business Solutions began supporting the Teddy Group – one of the international leaders in fashion retail, with the brands Rinascimento, Terranova and Calliope – the online protection of the three brands has delivered particularly significant results....

A $4,900 robot: compliance is no longer a problem for the future. This week the humanoid robot market takes a leap that changes the rules of the game. The Unitree R1 — 1.23 metres tall, 29 kg, able to run, do somersaults and respond to...

In force for over a year, the European regulation on the security of digital products has so far stayed in the background. But with the first reporting obligations arriving in September 2026 and full application set for December 2027, the time to prepare is running out...

Every day, in thousands of organizations, the same pattern repeats. An employee sends a file through WeTransfer because the company mailbox cannot handle large attachments. A colleague saves a presentation to a personal Dropbox to work on it from home. Someone else uploads a document containing personal data to an online PDF compression service...

Buying a counterfeit garment is not just a matter of poor quality or intellectual property infringement. Increasingly, it is a public health issue. This is confirmed by the study "Unboxing Fake Fashion: Unleashing Real Dangers", published...

The spread of deepfake content is now one of the most significant risks to the digital reputation of political figures, company directors, executives, managers, public officials and high-profile athletes. Manipulated videos, images and audio...

Our project to monitor and protect the Chianti designation online has reached an important milestone: the results of the online brand protection report – overview 2025, commissioned by the Consorzio Vino Chianti and produced entirely by the team of...

After twenty-five years of negotiations, the European Union has given political approval to the free trade agreement with Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), which must now complete the ratification process. For digital Made in Italy, this is a...

E-commerce continues to establish itself as a key channel for significantly increasing brand visibility and reaching international markets that would otherwise be hard to access. According to the latest available estimates published in 2024...

Video surveillance systems are now among the most widely used tools by companies to protect the safety of property and people. However, their installation and use are not unrestricted, but governed by a complex regulatory framework...

Online counterfeiting is a very insidious problem that can seriously damage a company's reputation and revenue. Counterfeiting is often associated with the fashion, design and sports sectors, but the online distribution and sale of counterfeit products...

On 25 May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR - Regulation (EU) 2016/679) became applicable, legislation that profoundly changed the approach of companies and public administrations to the management of...

Installing geolocation devices (GPS – Global Positioning System) on company vehicles is an effective tool for optimizing fleet management, improving worker safety and protecting the company's assets....

Are you a developer? Do you run an IT company that develops software? Or perhaps you are a privacy consultant. If you fall into one of these categories, you are surely one of the few people who have heard of the acronym OWASP. But...

Digital piracy in the publishing sector continues to pose a significant threat to the entire supply chain: authors, publishers, booksellers and readers. In recent years, although enforcement actions have intensified, the phenomenon has evolved, becoming...

In public statements and press articles, data protection legislation is often described as a bureaucratic complication or, in some cases, even as a brake on the digital transition and economic growth. Often, indeed, the activities that companies must carry out to comply with the GDPR are...

The film industry As regards cinema and television production, the damage caused by piracy has been evident to the entertainment industry since the 1980s (you can find here...

Today GDPR compliance is an essential requirement for companies and vendors engaged in developing and producing business management software. However, the intricate complexity of the regulation—together with ever-growing security and transparency demands—calls for clear, practical tools to ensure its rigorous application...

With the entry into force of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in 2022, a new status was introduced for entities that fight illegal content online and stand out for doing so in the most efficient and effective way. Trusted Flaggers,...

According to a recent study by Ipsos for FAPAV (the Italian Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual and Multimedia Content), in 2023 approximately 4.6 million Italians admitted to illegally watching live sports content – in particular...

On Wednesday 2 November, at 6:30 pm, Simone Bonamin of Argo Business Solutions will speak at the round table "Metamorsi. A Taste of the Metaverse, Art and NFTs". The topics of the meeting will be as follows: How can companies enter the Metaverse?...

Is your company required to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO)? Are you unsure whether this obligation applies to your organization? Before reading this article, we invite you to read a previous piece on the subject...

Defining an effective and comprehensive set of protective actions to defend the integrity and reputation of a brand is today, more than ever, a complex challenge, especially when the distribution of products takes on a global dimension...

The Alibaba Group is one of the greatest success stories of contemporary China. The conglomerate now comprises more than thirty entities[1] operating in a variety of sectors, offering services related to e-commerce, cloud computing and electronic payment systems...

The processor, under the EU Regulation on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR), is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body...

The EU Regulation on the protection of personal data (GDPR) has introduced two tiers of administrative fines: a first group for less serious violations, and one for more serious violations. First-tier violations are subject to administrative fines of up to €10 million...

Although the core business of social networks is not online commerce, they are potentially fertile ground for the proliferation of ads promoting counterfeit products; malicious actors often exploit the visibility these platforms offer to advertise...

As the most successful online marketplace worldwide, Amazon has to face, more than many of its competitors, the issue of individuals or organisations set on exploiting intellectual property rights duly registered by third parties...

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, more commonly known as the “GDPR”, requires a record of processing activities to be kept: a document whose...

The Data Protection Officer (DPO) is a role introduced by Art. 37 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 "GDPR". It is a person (an individual, internal or external to an organization, or a legal entity)...

On the night of 9–10 March 2021, a major fire broke out at the Strasbourg campus of the French company OVH. OVH (On Vous Héberge – We Host You) is one of the most important cloud service providers in Europe. The flames hit several data...

Over the last decade we have seen an explosion of concrete applications of artificial intelligence. Faced with the risk of being replaced, the workers of the future can be ready by developing “fusion skills”, which allow them to effectively “fuse” their own work with that of a machine...

At the start of the pandemic, we told you about the phenomenon of counterfeit masks sold online. Now, after profiting for months from the sale of fake PPE (personal protective equipment), the eyes of counterfeiters and criminal organisations are turning to vaccines...

Starting on 8 December 2020, anyone publishing a new app on Apple's App Store or updating an existing app will have to complete and publish the App Store privacy label. The label, similar to the nutrition labels printed on food products in supermarkets...

The recording of the webinar on the current state of online brand protection in Asia, held on 13 October with Argo partner Simone Bonamin and Riccardo Benussi of Dezan Shira & Associates, is now online.

Antifragility. This concept was coined by the Lebanese philosopher and mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2012 and denotes the ability of a system to change and improve in the face of external stressors, not in order to protect itself, but to adapt....

FREE WEBINAR 13 October 2020 at 11:00 a.m. CEST Dezan Shira & Associates and Argo are organizing a webinar on the state of online brand protection in Asia. Free registration at the following link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/436264633643420173 Like a...

FREE WEBINAR 13 October 2020 at 11:00 a.m. Dezan Shira & Associates and Argo are organizing a webinar on the state of online brand protection in Asia. Free registration at the following link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/436264633643420173 Like a...

Over the last few weeks, we have witnessed the growing spread of the novel Coronavirus strain 2019-nCoV (responsible for the respiratory disease known as COVID-19), which has received extensive media coverage around the world. Although the virus has a lower mortality rate than SARS and MERS, it spreads far more easily...

Cybercrime can have an infinitely greater impact on a worker's daily life than one might expect

After covering the topic "Brexit and GDPR" in the previous installment of this special, today we will analyze the possible consequences of Brexit on intellectual property issues, focusing in particular on EU trade marks (EUTMs). But...

For companies (especially small and medium-sized ones) it is often very hard to determine how many resources to invest in the various business projects. The difficulty increases in particular if the projects in question, instead of generating an immediate economic return...

The recent approval of the Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market has sparked a heated international debate involving publishers, Internet Service Providers and users. The most controversial provisions under discussion were...

The Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress has published the new e-commerce law, which regulates a market worth over €1 trillion a year

European Union trademarks are trademarks registered with the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office), based in Alicante (Spain). Unlike national trademarks, EU trade marks (EUTMs) are valid throughout the entire territory of the European Union....

2019 has got off to an exciting start for Argo. Since innovation, continuous training and investment in research and development (R&D) are the pillars on which our organization rests, we decided to join the ICT Innovation Cluster managed by the Torino Wireless Foundation...

Founded in 2014 by former Google employee Colin Huang, Pinduoduo has raised $3.1 billion in funding from the largest Chinese technology groups and funds

The Cambridge Analytica case, which broke at the beginning of March, has led international public opinion to question the role and influence of Facebook in contemporary digital society. The recent scandal led to the resignation of the top management of...

The B2C marketplace of the Alibaba group has established itself as China's leading platform for the sale of luxury goods