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 »
MEPs adopted a report on the safe use of unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones on the 29th of October. They feel new rules are needed in order to boost development without too much red tape to deter investment. The Commission proposal will contain an update to simplify the integration of drones in the legal framework… Read More »
Today the European Commission released the formal communication no. 566 on the transfer of personal data to United States of America, this is consequent to the annulment of the Commission Decision 2000/520/EC (also called Safe Harbor Agreement). In this document the Commission analyses a framework of possible alternative solutions to the invalid decision for SMEs… Read More »
Green light by the Italian Data Protection Commissioner to the database of defaulters intentional, to counter the “telephone tourism” for which a user switches to the new operator leaving behind unpaid bills. This initiated the “Information System arrears intentional in telephony” (SIMo.I.Tel.) To take a census of natural and legal persons, entities, associations, individual enterprises… Read More »
Italian Parliament today approved two separate motions to promote the Declaration of Rights in Internet in view of the Internet Governance Forum to be held in Brazil November 9 to 13. The Undersecretary of Telecommunications Antonello Giacomelli, to support the initiative “commits the government to activate its best endeavors for the promotion and adoption at… Read More »
I would like to point out the online survey promoted by Prometeo Management Consulting in order to better know, understand and deal with new security threats arising from the use of mobile devices, one of the major technological challenges regarding Privacy. The sector inquiry is aimed at increasing the awareness of experts about the level… Read More »
The White House is pushing for a Federal law on privacy: too many different legislations at State level also in the US. Does it sound familiar? Hereafter the draft text (in English only) that is currently being evaluated by the different parties and lobbies. A comparison with the EDPR could be interesting: if someone is… Read More »
On 6 October the European Court of Justice (CJEU) adopted a fundamental decision on transfer of personal data between the EU and the USA. In case C-362/14 Maximillian Schrems vs. Data Protection Commissioner the CJEU ruled that the Commission decision 2000/520, which states that the USA under the procedure known as “safe harbor” ensure adequate… Read More »
ISO – the International Organization for Standardization has already issued a set of guidelines and frameworks that anticipate the European Regulation on privacy. The main standards already published are: ISO / IEC 29100: 2011 Information technology – Security techniques – Policy framework ISO / IEC 29101: 2013 Information technology – Security techniques – Privacy architecture ISO… 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 »