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Google Street View on the dock in Spain: likely fine and criminal referral...

Spain’s Data Protection Commissioner (better known by its Spanish acronym, AEPD) has shocked the market by announcing that it has initiated a criminal sanction procedure and decided to impose a large...

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Send-To-A-Friend Messages: Are they legal?

Nowadays it is very common on most of the e-commerce and news websites to see an icon or a tool allowing users to forward the listing, a special offer or an article to a friend. Usually such...

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Time to update your Data Transfer Arrangement?

Data transfer to processors located in countries outside the EU/EEA has been popular since a long time. One of the best way to ensure that this operation is compliant with the rules governing data...

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Time for Behavioural Advertising Self-regulation?

Most stakeholders within the online industry are pressing for a self regulation that would set up a new framework for online behavioural advertising.   The recent position taken by the Art. 29 Working...

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Direct Marketing: Only a Privacy Issue?

A recent decision issued by the Italian Competition Authority (the AGCM) against an Italian telecom operator performing marketing communications without the prior consent of relative customers raised a...

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Another stop for Google in relation to Street View

At the end of an investigation on the processing operation performed by Google while collecting images for Street View in Italy, the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) ascertained that Google had...

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Monitoring of Employees' Emails and Internet Usage...Is it compliant with...

We have been receiving more and more requests of assistance during the last years in relation to issues connected to the monitoring of employees’ email and Internet usage. Often the scenario is that a...

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European Commission Issues Proposals to Reform and Streghten EU Data Protection

In a Communication addressed to the European Council and European Parliament, the European Commission sets out proposals for modernizing the EU data protection legal framework across the European...

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A new scenario for telemarketing in Italy

Few days ago a Presidential Decree (No. 18/2010) has been published on the Official Gazette, regulating the implementation of a public register, which will contain a list of telephone subscribers who...

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Financial Services and Cloud Computing under close Data Protection Scrutiny

The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has issued an inspection plan for the next months which will put under close scrutiny banks and credit cards...

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Outsourcing, cloud computing and data protection Webinars

The webinars are provided free of charge and the training is delivered to your desk without the need for travel. You will access the slides on your PC and access the audio presentation by freephone...

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Lighter Privacy Obligations for Italian Companies!

The Italian Government has recently approved a decree amending some of relevant provisions of the Italian data protection code aimed at simplifying the privacy obligations for Italian businesses.  In...

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Geo-location Services on Mobiles - What Privacy Issues?

The Article 29 Working Party (the "WP"), the EU privacy advisory board, has issued an interesting opinion on the data protection issues connected to the provision of geo-location services on smart...

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Cookies Directive: Deadline Now Expired!

It expires today the deadline for the implementation of the so called EU Cookies Directive 2009/136/EC amending, among others, the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC setting out specific privacy-related...

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Banks and data protection: new important rules by the Italian Data Protection...

Few days ago the Italian Data Protection Authority ("Garante") published a new decision on banks and data protection on the Italian Official Gazette. The Garante has dealt with several issues. I have...

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Privacy and outsourcing: new deadline for telcos for the appointment of data...

On 15 June 2011 the Italian data protection Authority (Garante) issued a decision, pursuant to which telecom operators are required to appoint their outsourcees of outbound telemarketing services as...

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Surveillance videos can be kept up to 90 days

According to the Video Surveillance Italian Regulations, issued by the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) in 2010, the images recorded with video surveillance systems may only be maintained by...

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Privacy: companies excluded from protection?

Privacy: companies excluded from protection?Today a government decree, which has not been officially published yet, has modified the Italian legislative decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003 (the "Italian...

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Electronic communications and privacy: a public consultation on the...

With the so called "Community Law" 2010 (legge comunitaria 2010) the Italian Parliament has authorized the government to approve one or more legislative decrees, which will transpose Directive...

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Securitization & Privacy: Not an Issue Anymore?

The privacy-related issues in securitizations have always been a relevant issue. Indeed, Italian law provided that also the data of companies fell under the scope of data protection regulations with...

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