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Italian DPA prohibits company’s geo-location system on its vehicles

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On June 28, 2018, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, Italy’s Data Protection Authority (DPA), rendered a decision reminding that privacy must be protected from the design phase of a product or service. With its decision, the Italian DPA prohibited the processing of data to the company that installed the geo-localization system on its vehicles. It also ordered the service provider to incorporate the "right to privacy" directly into the product functionalities, following the principle Read more [...]

Commonwealth v. Mangel, 181 A.3d 1154 (Pa. Super. Ct. Mar. 15, 2018)

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
Name, hometown and school on post is not enough to prove author's identity On March 15, 2018, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, provided an important reminder on the degree of direct or circumstantial evidence necessary to determine the paternity of a Facebook post to be admitted at trial. In this case, the Superior Court agreed with the trial court’s decision. There must be affirmative evidence to corroborate the identity of the online author. A Facebook page that contained the defendant’s Read more [...]

Cross-border cooperation and consistency procedures – State of play

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On July 4 and 5, 2018,  the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) held its second plenary meeting where it discussed the cooperation systems among data protection supervisory authorities, the first experiences on the functioning of the One-Stop Shop mechanism, the performance of the Internal Market Information System (IMI), and the challenges the data protection authorities (DPAs) are facing and the type of questions received since the entrance into force of the General Data Protection Regulation Read more [...]

Italian DPA issues 2017 annual activity report – some interesting (and perhaps unexpected) information

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On July 10, 2018, the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA), the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, issued the annual report on its activity for 2017. The English version of the report is not yet available. However, we extracted some numbers for you from the Italian text. Overall, there is a decrease in the number of notified administrative violations compared to 2016, but the amount of fines imposed in 2017 is higher. In 2017, the Italian DPA adopted 573 decisions (561 were Read more [...]

ICO investigation on data analytics used for political purposes

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On July 10, 2018, the Information Commissioner Officer, ICO, issued a report of the office investigations into the use of data analytics in political campaigns. According to the ICO, data analytics is causing information asymmetry between different groups of voters. The report details some of the organizations under investigation, as well as the enforcement actions undertaken so far. This includes the ICO’s intention to fine Facebook a maximum £500,000 for two breaches. Evidence emerged Read more [...]