Category Archives: Privacy & identity

App Immuni: the approval of the Italian Data Protection Authority

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The Immuni App is available for download in the Apple and Google App Stores. The app was preceded, even before the expectations on its possible effectiveness to fight the pandemic, by the doubts on its possible violation of privacy. Doubts that must have been now resolved, at least in theory, given that the Italian Data […]

Privacy: lights and shadows on data breaches management

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(source: Newsletter 463/2020 of Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali) There is a vast awareness on data breaches management, although limited to a few organizations. This is what is shown by an international investigation carried out by the data protection authorities (DPA) of 16 countries, among which Italy, and coordinated by the New Zealand […]

European guidelines on personal data processing during the Covid-19 outbreak

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The COVID-19 pandemic is sparking debate about the relation between the right to privacy and the right to health as if the first one hinders the second. Actually, the two rights can, and must, always coexist, especially during an emergency in which there could be a strong temptation to lower the guard. In this situation, […]

Personal data as data with economic value

The Regional Administrative Court of Lazio, with judgment no 26 of December 18th 2019-January 10th 2020, asserts the interesting principle that personal data can be an “asset” which can be economically exploitable and a potential consideration in a contract. Let’s see how we came to this statement. In December 2018, the AGCM, the Italian Competition […]