Author Archives: Sergio Fumagalli

About Sergio Fumagalli

Vice President Zeropiu Spa, system integrator specialized in digital identity and data security with operations in Italy and in the Nordics. After serving as MP in the Italian Parliament, I started a professional collaboration with the Data Protection Italian Authority and a professional activity on these topics. Co-author of “Privacy guida agli adempimenti”, IPSOA, 2004, 2005 a book on compliance to the Italian Law. Since 2008 member of the Oracle Community for Security - http://c4s.clusit.it/views/Homepage.html - and since 2014 member of the board of Clusit a leader association on IT Security in Italy Between 2004 and 2012 member of the board of Webank Spa, the online banc of the Banca Popolare di Milano group.

Personal data protection. The EU GDPR text has been approved: and now? Conference on January 29th 16

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 »

Coming soon: Jan. 29 2016 the first meeting on GDPR

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.

The DPO is back again

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 »

GDPR, safe harbour and terrorism.

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 »

Personal data protection in the headlines

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 »

Comparison among the three versions of the new GDPR

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 »

When the game gets tough, the tough players come in

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 »