Happy May 25th to everyone. Today represents the start of a new era for data protection, privacy and digital rights. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b-kiF3k8WTQ&feature=youtu.be
30Apr 2018
Italian DPA prohibits companies from using software that monitors employees
On 8 March 2018, the Italian Data Protection Authority banned any further processing activities of the Customer Care employees’ data, carried out by an important Italian telecommunication company through a software (namely, Salesforce Arcadia) that handled the calls to subscribers. The software not only processed n data related to the calls of the customers and their ...
27Apr 2018
The Italian Garante on the Data Protection Officer in the private sphere
On 26 March 2018, the Italian Data Protection Authority published its new “frequently asked questions” related to the figure of the Data Protection Officer (DPO) in the private sphere. The FAQs are a useful tool that can provide addition clarification regarding the figure of DPO together with the Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) Opinion on ...
09Apr 2018
Italian Data Protection Authority first semester 2018 inspection plan
On February 1st 2018 the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) published the inspection plan for the first semester of 2018. According to this inspection plan, the Italian DPA will focus its controls on processing activities of health data for research purposes, rating the solvency of enterprises, national statistical systems, the Italian Public System of Digital Identity ...
27Feb 2018
The Italian Data Protection Authority on DPOs in the public sphere
On December 15th 2017, the Italian Garante published the new “frequently asked questions” (FAQs) related to the Data Protection Officer (DPO) in the public sphere. The main aim of the FAQs is to respond to the major questions and concerns that arose during the meetings held in June 2017 between the Italian Public Administrations and the Garante. This document ...
02Jan 2018
Italian DPA rules against “social spam”
On 29 November 2017, the Italian Data Protection Authority once again decided against the malpractice of so-called “social spam”. In its last newsletter, the Garante clarified that email addresses available on a social networks cannot be used for marketing activities in absence of an explicit and specific consent of the data subject for the mentioned commercial ...
29Nov 2017
Il video di Sicurezza 2017: servizio sul Convegno GDPR di Federprivacy
Convegno sul GDPR a Fiera Milano Rho in occasione di Sicurezza 2017. Il servizio sulla giornata organizzata da Ethos Media Group con il patrocinio di Federprivacy. Parlano Nicola Bernardi, Presidente di Federprivacy, Francesco Pizzetti, giurista ed ex Garante Privacy, Paolo Balboni, presidente della European Privacy Association, e Massimo Montanile, Delegato Federprivacy di Roma e DPO di Elettronica Spa.
24Sep 2017
GDPR, focus sulla nuova privacy europea a #Sicurezza2017 | 16 novembre a Fiera Milano
"Toccherà a Federprivacy fare il punto sulle nuove regole in materia di privacy durante il convegno "GDPR, il nuovo Regolamento Europeo sulla protezione dei dati", organizzato da Ethos Media Group per il prossimo 16 novembre, a cui parteciperanno esperti della materia e rappresentanti delle autorità come il colonnello Marco Menegazzo, Comandante del Nucleo Speciale Privacy della Guardia ...
29Aug 2017
Banks: Garante determines employees are not allowed to furtively view current accounts
On 22 June 2017, the Italian Data Protection Authority confirmed the unlawful processing of personal data by an Italian bank which permitted one of its employees to illicitly view and communicate current account data of one its clients to third parties. In the case at stake, an account holder argued before the Garante that specific data relating ...
26May 2017
Italian DPA Releases video on #GDPR stressing privacy as a right
Watch the video in Italian here.
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