data handler – Europrivacy

German GDPR implementing rules

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 »

Data Handler, the “hidden role”

I say it now, it’s not that I’m nostalgic of the three-tiers organization (titolare, responsabile, incaricato) typical of the Italian national privacy legislation. Everybody said that with GDPR we will go back to the European binary model, with DATA CONTROLLER (responsabile) and DATA PROCESSOR (incaricato). Both roles can be natural or legal persons and appear… Read More »