Tag Archives: Privacy

Terminology differences between D.lgs 196/2003 and GDPR Regulation (EU) 2016/679

One of the benefits introduced by GDPR is about conforming the terminology at European level. But it is verifiable a disadvantage related to the figures involved, leaving the Italian scheme of D. Lgs. 196/2003 and considering the linguistic difference.                Lgs.196/2003                  … Read More: Terminology differences between D.lgs 196/2003 and GDPR Regulation (EU) 2016/679 »

Privacy and Security at the days of the Cloud

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 »

DPO – Information document of the Italian Privacy Authority

The Italian Authority for the protection of personal data has prepared an updated version of the information document about the figure of the Data Protection Officer provided by the GDPR, in the version amended following the political agreement between the European co-legislators (European Parliament and EU Council). This information document is available at the following link: http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/4791784

From #SAFEHARBOR to #PRIVACYSHIELD through the Judicial Redress Act

No matter what anybody says, the “privacy shield” is just “smoke in the eyes”. There are not fundamentals to protect personal data in the way the European Court of Justice asked in October 2015 Judgment “versus Facebook” (C-362/14, 6 October 2015). Many people thought of the Judicial Redress Act (hereinafter JRA) as a rule extending… Read More: From #SAFEHARBOR to #PRIVACYSHIELD through the Judicial Redress Act »

License Plate Reader Data Exposed

The Electronic Frontier Foundation learned that more than 100 automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras were exposed online. In some cases, the camera live streams could be accessed. ALPR systems capture images of license plates and alert authorities when they spot a plate on the “hot list.” The data are collected and stored even if… Read More: License Plate Reader Data Exposed »