The European Court of Justice (the CJEU) held that the Safe Harbor privacy principles for the transfer of data to the US are invalid opening questions on past and future data transfers relying on such data protection rules and calling for immediate actions.
Digital health has massive potentials, but its implementation requires to comply with standards that are now even more stringent after the issue of new guidelines by the Italian privacy authority.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming exponentially reviewed by regulators. After the report from the Italian telecom regulator (AgCom), the Italian privacy authority just launched a consultation seeking inputs from the industry on how to regulate the IoT.
Privacy breaches and potential liabilities might increase as a consequence of the usage of drones that represent a massive resource in a number of different sectors, but might also trigger some "new" unexpected legal risks.
Device fingerprinting is replacing cookies for analytics and tracking purposes, but privacy regulators now held that their usage is subject to the privacy consent, unless exemptions apply.
Privacy rules aimed at facilitating the processing of biometric data have been just issued by the Italian data protection authority (the Garante) with the purpose of fostering technologies relying on their usage including Internet of Things technologies.
Data protection rules will be adequately protected through the registry to be set up against frauds in the insurance sector according to the Italian data protection authority.
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.
Cookies in Italy finally got more clear rules with the issue of the guidelines by the Italian Data Protection Authority on the matter. These followed a long consultation subsequent to the coming into force of the law setting the boundaries of one of the most relevant data protection issues of the last years.
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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