A recent decision of the Italian privacy authority revealed a considerably broad definition of personal data and how the opinion from the DPO can help to reduce GDPR fines.
The Fintech revolution relies on data flows enhanced by the PSD2, which requires certainty now aimed by the European Data Protection Board guidelines on the interplay between the PSD2 and the GDPR, which leave gray areas though.
The video surveillance system adopted to monitor vehicles by a taxi company has been considered by the Finnish privacy authority to be in breach of the data protection law.
After the position taken by the ECJ in the Planet49 case, the EDPB in its guidelines, also the German federal court held that privacy consent is necessary to the usage of cookies.
On the birthday of the GDPR, we need to defend privacy rights against the strategy of companies, and authorities that want to challenge or waive them due to the Covid-19 outbreak, assuming to better protect the public interests.
The new guidelines on privacy consent of the European Data Protection Board challenged a practice on cookies validated by the Garante in Italy and adopted by most of the websites.