A recent decision of the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/) has manifested a fear that for years affected the UK (and not only) and that it is the focus of the discussions between the associations for the protection of clients/patients/data subjects. The above document states that the British “Data Controller” has experienced an anomaly related to… Read More »
The headlines go to the Cyber Crime attacks, but ultimately the Compliance remains the main expense leverage in IT security, at least for SMEs. That’s what emerges from the 2016 Survey by the Information Security & Privacy Observatory of the Milan Politecnico School of Management, presented on 2/2 at the conference “Cyber Crime: the invisible threat… Read More »
Several developments for the professional certifications (DPOs among them) and for controller/processor certification are being built. Which one of them will win the race is still not so clear … let’s try to assess the situation (italian only): Il dpo e gli schemi di certificazione dei trattamenti from Fabio Guasconi
The new right to data portability (art. 20 GDPR) shall also apply to health data. This interpretation is clearly illustrated in the recent Guidelines on the right to data portability, issued by the WP 29 on December, 13 2016. At point III, the Guidelines states three necessary conditions to apply the right: personal data concerning… Read More »
Around a year ago, following a public consultation of more than 500 contributors, the national Cyber Security framework was published, enriched through time with new support tools: http://www.cybersecurityframework.it/contenuti-di-supporto-al-framework A year later a new public enquiry was launched, concerning safety checks of Cybersecurity Report 2016, to which its is possible participating by February 3rd 2017 visiting… Read More »
“ENISA is the Agency of the European Union tasked with contributing to the enhancement of the overall level of cybersecurity of the EU and its Member States. This consultation kicks off the review of ENISA, whose current mandate will come to an end in 2020. The European Commission welcomes the views of all interested stakeholders… Read More »
Aula Magna packed and great audience interest on 17/1 for the conference dedicated to GDPR by the Information Security & Privacy Observatory of Politecnico University in Milan. In his introduction Alessandro Piva (Observatory Director) has anticipated some results of the Research that will be presented on 2/2, which shows the breadth and diversity of threats,… Read More »
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GDPR (Privacy European Regulation) does not require “notification to the supervisory authority” for special data processings. Such notification was required by previous Directive 95/46/CE. In fact, notification of special processing processings is considered an obsolete tool and, as written in introductory clause 89, “did not in all cases contribute to improving the protection of personal… Read More »
European privacy Regulation (GDPR, Reg. UE 679/2016) requires, in article 35, that controllers carry out, in some special cases, a Data protection impact assessment (usually known as Privacy impact assessment or, shortly, PIA), that is, a document reporting a risk assessment related to processing operations. PIA is required in the case of: a systematic and… Read More »