eHealth and fitness/wellness apps are being investigated and potentially sanctioned by the Italian data protection authority that found half of them not compliant with applicable privacy laws.
Data protection breaches of health related sensitive data might occur through a mere video scanning an individual's face according to a recent research.
Internet of Things technologies require the communication between devices on telecom networks that vary depending on the type of service provided. Such communications in some cases lead to telecom law issues in relation to the possibility to use the relevant telecom network and obligations triggered by such usage. These are among the issues that the Italian telecom authority, AGCOM and the UK telecom authority, OFCOM, will be discussing during the current consultation on the Internet of Things.
Data protection issues for Google in Italy are not over. The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has now challenged their privacy information notice requiring - among others - an express consent from users to their profiling for marketing purposes leading to issues that might impact any business based on the processing of BIG DATA such as the Internet of Things and in general on behavioural advertising.
The European Commission issued standardization guidelines for cloud computing service level agreements with the goal of improving consistency in service level agreements at the global level to be used by entities willing to enter into outsourcing agreements with cloud providers.
Mobile payments are now subject to more stringent privacy obligations as a consequence of the decision of the Italian Data Protection Authority subsequent to the consultation previously covered.
New rules on the usage of biometric data issued by the Italian data protection authority (the "Garante" or "DPA") are meant to clarify the applicable obligations with the purpose to ease the adoption of technologies relying on them in connection for instance to mobile devices and therefore also of wearable technologies part of the Internet of Things. However, such rules, that are now subject to an open consultation, set stringent obligations in their processing that might require improvements to avoid they reppresent a barrier for the launch of new products.
Google data protection issues might increase as a consequence of the ruling of the European Court of Justice that obliged search engines to remove the link between search results and a webpage if it contains information the individual deems should be "forgotten". But it is argued that this decision might have relevant consequences also for the development of technologies based on Big Data including Internet of Things and wearable technologies.
The tech gurus in Milan are very excited since next week-end there will be the Wired Next Fest which will cover some of the most relevant technology matters currently discussed. Interestingly some of such legal issues have been covered in my articles on this blog.
Below are some of my presentations arranged by me Giulio Coraggio that might be of interest
Come gestire le problematiche privacy dell'emergenza Covid-19 in Italia
Artificial intelligence - Not the evil, but the New Electricity
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One year of GDPR, what happened and what to expect!
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