The Italian DPA fined La Sapienza University in Rome € 30,000 for having spread the names of two individuals who had reported potential wrongdoings online. In doing so, the DPA stressed the importance of employers adopting adequate technological procedures for ensuring the the anonymous reporting of potentially illicit behaviour, also known as whistleblowing. Specifically the ...
The Italian DPA (Garante) has stated that it is not allowed for a company to keep the email account of a former employee active following termination of the employment relationship and to access the emails contained in the inbox. The Decision of the Garante follows a complaint from an individual who complained that their privacy ...
The Italian Data Protection Supervisory Authority recently published the measure whereby it decided on the audit plan for this six-month period, citing one of the processing activities that could be inspected: “1. For the period from July to December 2019, the auditing activity initiated and carried out by the Data Protection Supervisory Authority, including through the Guardia di ...
On 19 April 2019, the Italian Data Protection Authority, or Garante Privacy, announced the approval of a new measure (Register of measures n. 96 of 18 April 2019) that is soon to be published in the Official Gazette, which establishes rules that govern voter data use on the part of political parties, movements, committees, candidates, ...
According to the Italian DPA, the Garante Privacy, as of 28 September 2018, four months after the GDPR became fully applicable in Italy: 40,738 appointed DPO's contact information was communicated 2,547 complaints and reports were received 305 data breach notifications were made 7,200 requests to the Garante's font office were made These numbers show a significant ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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