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First GDPR sanctions are underway: the German case

On 22 November 2018, the Baden-Württenberg Data Protection Authority (LfDI) announced, with a press release available here in German, of having imposed a € 20.000 sanction on the chat site Knuddels.de, for breach of Art. 32 of the GDPR. Knuddels is an online chat service that was popular in the 2000s, before the Facebook era.… Read More »

Record of the processing activities: semplification for SME

At the AssoDPO Congress, Luigi Montuori (Authority’s office), talking about the most recent WP29’s activities, cited a recent “position paper” on the exemption from the Records of processing activities. I remind that article 30(5) states: “The obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to an enterprise or an organisation employing fewer… Read More »

Right to oblivion and indexing of non-EU websites: the position of Persona Data Protection Authoriy.

Google privacy saga concerning right to obivion continues with the measure of Italian Persona Data Protection Authority n. 557 dated December 21st, 2017 concerning the remova of certain Url from the list of European and non-European results of the widely-known search engine. It is very interesting the fact that the data subject is an Italian… Read More »

DPO: the responses of the Privacy Authority to frequently asked questions

  Here come the answers of the Privacy Aythority to frequently asked questions asked about the DPO (ex art. 37 Reg UE 2016/679) Below the link in both Italian and English http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/5930300 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/image/document/2016-51/wp243_annex_en_40856.pdf   Please find here below the answer n. 10 that in my opinion integrates and responds to the discussion that followed the… Read More »

Phishing: news from “Italian Data Protection Authority” in an schedule

In mid December the Italian Data Protection Authority (hereafter IDPA) in the framework of information items aimed to the raise of awareness in the privacy, edited a new schedule about phishing Phishing is a form of scam made on the Internet through deception of users, and is an unlawful technique used to steal confidential information… Read More »

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