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Facebook “moves” processing of data of non EU users from Ireland to the US

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
According to Reuters, Facebook is modifying its terms and conditions so that the data of around one and a half billion of its users will be processed by Facebook USA rather than Facebook Ireland. As of today, the data of the users of Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America are processed by Facebook Ireland, thus falling under the umbrella of the applicable EU data protection laws. Despite not being European, the processing of data of the users from these countries would have fallen straight Read more [...]

Italian DPA fines political party for privacy policy violation

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
In March 2018, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, Italy’s Data Protection Authority, issued a fine of Euros 32,000 against the Rousseau association, controller of the processing of data of the website users of the Italian political party “5-Star” (Cinque Stelle). Federprivacy reports. After a data breach, the Italian DPA started investigating whether the websites had a compliant data privacy policy. Among other security issues, the DPA discovered the controller did not Read more [...]

Italian Trade Agency’s report on US-Italy Trade; Italy kept its 10th place among the investing countries in US

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
In April 2018, the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) made available a report containing useful information on bilateral investments between USA and Italy. The good news is that US-Italy trade marked a positive trend in 2018, increasing 14.5% compared to the same period of the previous year. Italy confirmed its 2.1% market share and kept its 10th place among the countries exporting to the United States. The growing trend registered in 2017 continued in the first months of 2018 for the following Read more [...]

Watch your connected thermostat, it might open the doors to your bank account

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
Hackers stole a casino’s high-roller database hacking through a thermometer placed in a fish tank of the casino. The hackers accessed it and were then able to find their way across the network and up to the cloud to the valuable database. Source Businessinsider reports on April 15, 2018. Nowadays a lot of devices and everydaytools are connected (IoT), from thermostats to home appliances, vehicles and all kinds of other items embedded with technology that enables these objects to connect and Read more [...]

The CLOUD Act: significant changes to cross-border access to data held by communication-service providers

Posted on by Federica Romanelli
On March 23, 2018, the omnibus spending bill was signed into law; a portion contains the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act). The CLOUD Act’s main goal is to grant governments timely access to electronic data stored by communication-service providers (such as email service providers, certain cloud service providers and social media providers). The Act allows US law enforcement authorities to access data stored abroad as well as foreign authorities to directly seek disclosure Read more [...]