It seems that the FBI is confident to be able to crack the i-phone without Apple’s support, so the court date has been posponed. If FBI is right it would be a hot issue for Apple but the key point would remain the same: can a private subject claim to refuse support to a judge formally… Read More »
Some days ago, the Apple CEO Tim Cook decided to oppose an order signed by a Judge, denying support to FBI to brute force the Iphone of the San Bernardino terrorists. Apple refuses to develop the software required to make it possible in order to protect its customers’ privacy: that’s why this event impacts on… Read More »
Last December, the Commission of the EU Parliament in charge approved the final text of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) thus closing the negotiation among EU Parliament, Commission and Council (the so called trilogue). Now only some formal approval steps are still missing to have it in force. Steps that shoul be completed… Read More »
Europrivacy.info is organizing a meeting to start talking and working on the recently approved text of the GDPR on January 29 in Milan. This is just a “save the date”: more info will follow soon.
Data Protection Officer is mandatory, again. Article 35 of the latest version of GDPR states that “The controller and processor shall designate a data protection officer in any case where: […] “. To clearly understand which controllers and processors are included in such categories, the local language versions – and perhaps some comments – are needed. Controller… Read More »
Cyber intelligence is probably one of the important weapons against terrorism. GDPR is a barrier against the freedom of intrusion of a wide variety of powers in the personal life of common people. These two statements are strictly connected: that’s why one of the most heard statements in these dark days is “less privacy for… Read More »
The most important Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, day after day reports headlines concerning the topic “privacy”: on Tuesday 10th an interview with Tim Cook, Apple CEO, where privacy is defined “a right” that Internet companies must respect to avoid a dramatic crisis in the future; the day after, Microsoft’s Nadella declares (see below) that… Read More »
The White House is pushing for a Federal law on privacy: too many different legislations at State level also in the US. Does it sound familiar? Hereafter the draft text (in English only) that is currently being evaluated by the different parties and lobbies. A comparison with the EDPR could be interesting: if someone is… Read More »
The EDPS (European Data Protection Supervisor) has published a document that compares the versions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted by the Commission (2012), the EU Parliament (2014) and by the EU Council (2015). The document is available in the EDPS website. On the same topic see the post: The European Data Protection… Read More »
The most important italian newspaper, Corriere della sera, today publishes, in the first page of the economy section, a short story with this title: “European banks require less privacy for their customers”. Literally. Reporting news from Financial Times, the story tells that bank’s lobby is pushing back on the PDP Regulation to get a lighter… Read More »