I was in Netherland last week at the Heliview Privacy conference and found that in the Netherlands, starting from January 1st, 2016 the data breaches must be notified to the authority and to the data subject. The non-compliance fines are set to 810.000 euro or an impressive 10% of the company turnover. Here you find more… Read More »
On 9 October 2015, the Council of the European Union reached a General Approach on the Proposal for a Directive on protecting personal data processed for the purpose of law enforcement (full text here). Another milestone in the process of approving the Data Protection Reform as the Reform is, in fact, a legislative PACKAGE that includes two legislative… Read More »
On tuesday october 13th, 14.00 hrs @ Agid, Rome via Listz 21 the first open doors workshop for drafting standards on those very important professional profiles will take place. If you are willing to participate a simple confirmation sent to UNINFO secretariat (salsano@uninfo.it) will be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Fabio GUASCONI
The General Data Protection Regulation (the text of June 2015) defines the scope of material application as provided by the law in force, in observation of section 3: This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data, entirely or partly automated and to the processing of personal data not automated contented in a record or… Read More »
The European Data Protection Supervisor launched a mobile app to compare the latest texts proposed for theGeneral Data Protection Regulation from the Commission, the Parliament and the Council on tablets and smartphones. https://secure.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/edps/Consultation/Reform_package
In the beginning of 2012 the European Commission published the first draft of the “Proposal for a Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data“. It has been about four years in the making and the final release of the new General Data Protection Regulation is expected to be… 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 »
On August the 6th the EDPS gave his opinion on the data reform. The full text is available at Consilium web site. The EDPS points out five high level requirements: A better deal for citizen: simplicity while: Understanding what is personal information Exercising their rights on personal data All data processing should be both lawful and justified… 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 »
As the GDPR progresses along its path, the program to comply with the new discipline has to be envisaged. Such program shall surely be complex for the impacts that the new regulation is going to have on organization, processes and technologies. Preliminarily there are two basic questions that need to find answers: Which is the… Read More »