The investigations of the privacy authority led to € 11 million fines, with 65 inspections performed in Italy, 1,300 investigated entities, and a detailed plan for the second half of 2019.
The new Italian privacy rules on commercial information remove considerable restrictions on access by companies to such data, granting the opportunity to exploit new categories of data.
The Italian privacy authority is launching an investigation on the compliance of online gaming operators with data protection laws that shall immediately get ready.
New Italian privacy cookies rules will come into force on the 2nd of June 2015 requiring relevant technical and content changes to ecommerce, gaming, news, etc. Internet sites.
Internet of Things regulators might have learnt an interesting lesson from Google's decision to shut down Google News in Spain as a consequence of the coming into force of new publishing law.