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 ...

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 ...