Among the speeches at the GDPR conference held at Politecnico University in Milan on 17/1 (see HERE for full report), particularly enlightening i found the one by Sergio Fumagalli (Coordinator of Europrivacy), dedicated to the impact of GDPR on SMEs. The reasoning was prompted by the need to contextualize the application of regulations to the… Read More: A “sustainable and effective” Privacy for SMEs »
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: GDPR guest star at Politecnico University »
The italian Data Protection Officer Association presents the third edition of the Annual Congress of ASSO DPO, to be held in Milan on 8 and 9 May 2017. Undisputed star will be the new General Data Protection Regulation. Some european DPA, the european DPO Associations, the most important lnternational Privacy referrals and the members of… Read More: Italian DPO Association Annual Congress »
The GDPR Article 20 introduces a new right to “data portability” to enable data qwners to easily move or copy their personal data to another environment . The Opinion of the WP29 clarifies the conditions of application and provides concrete examples to explain the circumstances in which this right applies. The Opinion states that this… Read More: Portability: WP29 guidelines »
Out of the 4 guidelines promised by the FabLab by year-end, the WP29 adopted on December 13 the first one, dedicated to the role of the DPO. It does not obviously contain new regulations but interpretations, examples and best practices, highly desirable because (as stated by the WP29 itself) the GDPR contains several ambiguities. I… Read More: WP29 sheds light on the DPO »
Germany has released the second draft of a rule implementing the GDPR, which will replace the current national Privacy legislation Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG), setting alongside the GDPR itself. According to the Regulation, member states may legislate on specific matters, while respecting the general principles set out in the Regulation: Germany apparently is already doing it. In… Read More: German GDPR implementing rules »
The FabLab Group (established by WP29) drew up the summary document that will lead to issue best practices and guidelines about: the role of the DPO, Data Portability, DPIA and criteria on the Privacy Certification. As for the DPO, as you may have already had occasion to read, I am among those who support the… Read More: WP29 and the role of DPO »
The Working Party Article 29 spokeswoman Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin has set for her team a challenging goal: to publish later this year a handbook for practical application in companies of the changes introduced by the new european General Data Protection Regulation. The guidelines are necessary because “there are ambiguities in GDPR”. Clarifications have also been promised… Read More: WP29 announces a “handbook” for the GDPR »
Opening the meeting today at the Cloud Security Summit, the President of CSA Italy, Alberto Manfredi wanted to give out two “take aways”: # 1 Privacy was an obstacle to enterprise data porting into the cloud; we can say that now it is no longer so, because we have the technical and legal instruments for… Read More: Privacy and Security at the days of the Cloud »
We can go on discussing about the role and collocation of the Data Protection Officer within the company, considering the new European Privacy Regulation. And we will. But when Luca Bolognini takes a stand, then the chatter end. Tuesday, 10/05 in Turin for the conference “The European Regulation Policy inside the Company” organized by Sistemi… Read More: More on the DPO role (and what about the DPD?) »