On 23 January 2019, the EU Commission adopted its adequacy decision on Japan, allowing personal data to flow freely between Europe and Japan. The adequacy decision started to apply as of January 23. The same will happen on the Japanese side. The adequacy decision includes: a set of Supplementary Rules to strengthen the protection of sensitive data, […]
On December 20, 2018, the new European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) and the BEREC Regulation entered into force. The EECC represents a major reform of the European telecom regulatory framework. The BEREC Regulation is an associated regulation concerning the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). They are both part of the Digital Single […]
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On December 28, 2018, the French Data Protection Agency, the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) published several principles to help companies comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) while transferring personal data to their commercial partners for electronic prospecting. Particularly, the CNIL highlights how: the data subject must give consent before […]
On November 29, 2018, the Italian Antitrust Authority (Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato “AGCM”) found that Facebook committed two violations of the Italian Consumer Code and fined the it EUR 5 million for each violation. Facebook mislead consumers in registering to Facebook -in violation of articles 21 and 22 of the Italian Consumer Code […]
The new article 2-terdecies, of the Italian Privacy Code (introduced by Legislative Decree 101/2018), expressly rules on the data protection rights of the deceased. According the Italian Privacy Code, the rights of access, rectification, cancellation, limitation, portability, opposition and the rights relating to fully automated decisions relating to personal data concerning deceased subjects may be […]
Expressing an opinion on a proposed bill aiming at substituting –in a 2015 Ministerial decree, Ministero dell’Interno del 23 dicembre 2015 – the words “father“ and “mother” in place of “parents or legal guardians” on the application for a minor’s ID, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati (the Italian Data Protection Authority) highlights how the […]
On October 4, 2018, the European Parliament adopted the proposed EU Regulation on the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data in the European Union. The Regulation aims at removing obstacles to the free movement of non-personal data within the European Union. The Regulation does not cover data mobility outside the EU. The approved Regulation does not […]
The EDPB adopted opinions on the draft lists that several supervisory authorities issued regarding he processing operations subject to the requirement of a data protection impact assessment (DPIAs, according to Article 35.4 GDPR). This power of EDPB is pursuant to Article 63, Article 64 (1a), (3) – (8) and Article 35 (1), (3), (4), (6) […]
On August 14, 2018, the Brazilian president signed the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (“LGPD”) into law. The LGPD is a comprehensive data privacy regulation, which has many similarities with the GDPR, such as for example its broad scope of application, which includes processing activities conducted wholly outside of Brazil, but affecting or […]
On July 10, 2018, the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA), the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, issued the annual report on its activity for 2017. The English version of the report is not yet available. However, we extracted some numbers for you from the Italian text. Overall, there is a decrease in the number of […]