The Italian Data Protection Authority has now introduced new relevant data protection obligations for banks. Indeed banks subject to Italian data protection law shall, among others,: 1. Communication of personal data within a group of banks Banks will be able to transfer customers' personal data to other banks of the same group only with the prior consent of the relevant customers,…

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 regulations governing the electronic communications sector. The provision of the EU Cookies Directive that is leading to the most relevant discussions concerns the obligation to…

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 mobile devices. The conclusions reached by the WP are: geo-location data : geo-location data are "personal data" for the purposes of…

The Italian Government has recently approved a decree amending some of relevant provisions of the Italian Privacy Code aimed at simplifying the privacy obligations for Italian businesses. In short, these are the main changes: COMPANIES' PERSONAL DATA: Italy was one of the very few EU countries…