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 ...
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 ...
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.
"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 ...
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 ...
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My article published on Lexology. Scenario On 28 April the Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante”) issued its first guidance on the new provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), consisting of a schematic overview of the changes in the current legal framework and recommendations on how to face them. The Garante focused on six specific aspects: Lawfulness ...
On 28 April 2017 the Italian Data Protection Authority released a Guide for the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (Guida all'applicazione del Regolamento europeo in materia di protezione dei dati personali). The Guide provides an overview of the main aspects that should be considered with regards to EU Regulation 2016/679 before it is implemented ...
Background information/scenario Since the publication of the Guidelines Applying to the Use of E-Mails and the Internet in the Employment Context, the Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante”) has had more than one opportunity to state its view on the controls of IT devices provided to employees to perform their job. In the case at stake, a ...
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