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We are discussing in our video blogs some practical tips for successful outsourcing. We are now sharing some thoughts on one of the most popular legal issues in offshore outsourcing, the compliance with the applicable data protection laws.
A Law Decree introducing the so called electronic health record, online examination record and in general the digitalization of the medical sector is about to be ratified by the Italian Parliament.
Yesterday the Industry Commission of the Italian Senate passed an amendment to the law converting the government decree no. 1 of 24 January 2012 (so called "liberalization decree"), setting up two additional antifraud databases, i.e. the "database of witnesses" and the "database of damaged parties".
[Read More]Businesses operating in Italy will no longer have to keep un updated "Documento Programmatico sulla Sicurezza - DPS" (security policy document).[Read More]
The privacy-related issues in securitizations have always been a relevant issue. Indeed, Italian law provided that also the data of companies fell under the scope of data protection regulations with the consequential need to comply with privacy policy notifications towards thousands of creditors whose contract has been assigned as part of the secrutizations for instance. But things have now changed![Read More]
With the so called "Community Law" 2010 (legge comunitaria 2010) the Italian Parliament has authorized the government to approve one or more legislative decrees, which will transpose Directive 2009/136/EC in Italy. Now the Italian Economic Development Ministry has opened a public consultation on the draft of the decrees and invited all stakeholders to send their comments within 20 December 2011 to the following email address: dip.comunicazioni@sviluppoeconomico.gov.it . [Read More]
Today a government decree, which has not been officially published yet, has modified the Italian legislative decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003 (the "Italian Privacy Code"), amending, inter alia, the definition of "personal data", which is now referred to individuals only. [Read More]
In a recent case, the Authority allowed an Italian company operating in the field of electronic component, to preserve the images recorded by its video surveillance system for 90 days for security reasons. [Read More]
On 15 June 2011 the Italian data protection Authority (Garante) issued a decision, pursuant to which telecom operators are required to appoint their outsourcees of outbound telemarketing services as external data processors by 2 September 2011. Few days ago a new decision by the Garante has postponed this deadline until 30 November 2011.
[Read More]Few days ago the Italian Data Protection Authority ("Garante") published a new decision on banks and data protection. The Garante has dealt with several issues. I have tried to summarize the most relevant. [Read More]
It expires today the deadline for the implementation of the so called EU Cookies Directive 2009/136/EC amending, among others, the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC setting out specific privacy-related regulations governing the electronic communications sector. [Read More]
The Italian Government has recently approved a decree amending some of the provisions of the Italian data protection code aimed at simplifying the privacy obligations for Italian businesses. [Read More]
DLA Piper is pleased to announce a series of 30 minute web based seminars presented by a multi jurisdictional team of experts providing insights in negotiation and management strategies for complex projects.[Read More]
The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has issued an inspection plan for the next months which will put under close scrutiny banks and credit cards systems, as well as cloud services providers. [Read More]
Few days ago a Presidential Decree (No. 18/2010) has been published on the Official Gazette, regulating the implementation of a public register, which will contain a list of telephone subscribers who do not want their telephone numbers to be processed for telemarketing purposes (so called "Robinson List"). The register shall be set up by the Economic Development Ministry or by a third provider entrusted by the Minister within 90 days from the publishing of said Presidential Decree.
In a Communication addressed to the European Council and European Parliament, the European Commission sets out proposals for modernizing the EU data protection legal framework across the European Union. [read more]
We have been receiving more and more requests of assistance during the last years in relation to issues connected to the monitoring of employees’ email and Internet usage which is subject to relevant labour and data protection restrictions.[Read More]