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Italy - Digital Legacy - Court in Milan orders release of Apple accounts

Inheritance law

Italy - Digital Legacy - Court in Milan orders release of Apple accounts

By order of 10 February 2021, the Regional Court of Milan, applying Art. 2 terdecies of the Ital. Data Protection Act (Legislative Decree 196/2003), which regulates the rights of deceased persons, ruled that, contrary to the objection of Apple, which stayed away from the proceedings but had referred to the Californian law beforehand, the data of a deceased boy must be released to his parents.