e-PRIVACY REGULATION PROPOSAL’S DEVELOPMENT – II) Work in progress

On June 9, Marju Lauristin, the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), released a draft report containing amendments to the Regulation. In the preparation of this report, the rapporteur Marju Lauristin has conducted extensive and thorough discussions with the following Committees: draft… Read More »

e-PRIVACY REGULATION PROPOSAL’S DEVELOPMENT – I) Art. 29WP and EDPS’s opinions

As already mentioned in a previous post, on 10 January 2017 the European Commission presented a proposal for a Regulation (the “Regulation”) which is expected to amend the Directive 2002/58/EC (e-Privacy Directive) standardising the current European legal framework for the processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector and whose final approval is expected to… Read More »

Right to be forgotten: all on the same road!

During this summer the Italian Privacy Autority had posted in Newsletter n. 431 of 8.8.2017 a summary of a Provision n. 277 del 15.6.2017 that was based on the fact of how, under the right to be forgotten, time is not the only factor to be taken into account for the existence of same. From the… Read More »

Dpo certification scheme: Spain arrives first!!

AEDP is the first in EU to issue with ENAC a Dpo certification scheme
As below:

https://www.agpd.es/portalwebAGPD/index-ides-idphp.php
https://www.agpd.es/portalwebAGPD/revista_prensa/revista_prensa/2017/notas_prensa/news/2017_07_13-ides-idphp.php
https://www.agpd.es/portalwebAGPD/temas/reglamento/common/pdf/Certificacion/ESQUEMA_AEPD_DPD_PUBLICO_1.0.pdf

Monitoring of approved codes of conduct

Let us assume for a moment that we have a perfect code of conduct, the best that you could ever write, already approved, recorded and released by the supervisory authority, and so – at this point – you should only “hope” that itwill be adopted by users for which it was drawn. Here, we imagine… Read More »

WILL THE CONSENT COLLECTED BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF GDPR STILL BE VALID?

The “Guide on the Application of the European Personal Data Protection Regulation” published by the Italian DPA states, in the “Recommendations” at the foot of the consensus form, that: “The consent obtained before May 25, 2018 remains valid if it has all of the above characteristics. Otherwise, it is appropriate to work before that date… Read More »