In the beginning of 2012 the European Commission published the first draft of the “Proposal for a Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data“. It has been about four years in the making and the final release of the new General Data Protection Regulation is expected to be… Read More »
The EDPS (European Data Protection Supervisor) has published a document that compares the versions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted by the Commission (2012), the EU Parliament (2014) and by the EU Council (2015). The document is available in the EDPS website. On the same topic see the post: The European Data Protection… Read More »
The recent scandal of the data theft suffered by Canadian extramarital dating website Ashley Madison astonished and continues to create consequences; nearly 10 GBs of data stolen by a hacker group and containing highly sensitive information about the private life of the users involved, whose lives have been however inevitably affected only for being part… Read More »
The most important italian newspaper, Corriere della sera, today publishes, in the first page of the economy section, a short story with this title: “European banks require less privacy for their customers”. Literally. Reporting news from Financial Times, the story tells that bank’s lobby is pushing back on the PDP Regulation to get a lighter… Read More »
The controller and the processor shall designate, where applicable, a Data Protection Officer (DPO) on the basis of professional qualities and, in particular, knowledge and experience on data protection law and practices, and ability to fulfil the assigned tasks . The controller (or the processor) shall ensure that the Data Protection Officer is properly and timely involved… Read More »
As the GDPR progresses along its path, the program to comply with the new discipline has to be envisaged. Such program shall surely be complex for the impacts that the new regulation is going to have on organization, processes and technologies. Preliminarily there are two basic questions that need to find answers: Which is the… Read More »
An app was released for mobile phones and tablets that allows to consult the work of European Institutions on the general rules for the protection of data. The Italian Giovanni Buttarelli launched the app on National and European data protection “to compare the latest changes in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brought by the co-legislating… Read More »
At this link you can download the official document dated July 2, 2015 http://www.consilium.europa.eu/register/en/content/out/?&typ=ENTRY&i=ADV&DOC_ID=ST-10366-2015-INIT The document includes the draft compromise text, v1, 30.06.2015 This is a further step by the European Union.
The new EU Regulation provides for the existence of different roles involved in the processing of personal data : • Data Controller • Controller ‘s representative • Data Processor • Joint Controller reflecting , in principle , similar figures in the current legislation . As already noted in the post of Andrea Reghelin one of… Read More »
The EU Council’s proposal for the Personal Data Protection Regulation approved on the 11th of June makes the DPO no longer mandatory for anyone. What did it mean for the DPO to be mandatory in the previous versions of the forthcoming Personal Data Protection Regulation? The digital transformation, or however you may call the big changes in our lives… Read More »