Any operation involving personal data, also including their access or vision, is considered as data processing. Even the usage of a video surveillance system or a drone taking images of people, even without filming, is considered as data processing. The data processing should be lawful, fair and transparent. The information about the data processing has […]
Category Archives: Privacy & identity
What personal data are
Personal data is “any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person” that in the Regulation is called “data subject” of the processing. The Regulation deals only with data interesting natural persons and not legal ones. “Personal data” is a very wide concept and concerns any information somehow linked to a natural person – which […]
To which data processing the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will not apply
The European Regulation on Privacy 679/2016 does not apply to some data processing. In particular, it does not apply to data processing performed for activities not included in the application of the EU right, for national security for instance. Data processing performed by countries for foreign politic purposes, criminal investigations, prevention and for public security […]
To who the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will apply
In order to establish if a company is subjected to the European Regulation on Privacy, it is necessary to know its establishments and its internal organization (art. 3). GDPR states that the Regulation does apply to a company when it has: An establishment in the EU if the data processing concerns the activity developed in […]