(by Biagino Costanzo, company executive and Head of the Security, Cyber, Safety, Ethic Observatory of AIDR) A few days before the crazy invasion of Ukraine, the photo where the distance between Putin and Macron went around the world on the white board of representation testified, plastically, not only a chasm between the two on the Ukraine dossier, in fact, but the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Very often we rely on online platforms to search for and then book a holiday, or to reserve rooms for receptions or conferences in luxury hotels around the world. A "last minute" offer in particularly popular places is an opportunity not to be missed. Just register on the site, provide all the details, enter the data of the [...]
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(by Federica De Stefani, lawyer and head of Aidr Regione Lombardia) The forecast of the administration of a third dose of vaccine turns the spotlight on privacy once again and requires the intervention of the Guarantor. At the base of this new "controversy" the statements of Guido Bertolaso, coordinator of the vaccination campaign in Lombardy, released on the sidelines of [...]
Read MoreToday the activities that take place online are more and more numerous: from the purchase of products and services to the payment of bulletins to digital transactions, paying through online tools is no longer a "foreign" activity and on the contrary is carried out regularly in the most disparate of everyday life. When it comes to moving sums of any kind, even [...]
Read More(by Federica De Stefani, lawyer and head of Aidr Lombardy Region) Journalistic activity and the exercise of the right to report are again at the center of a provision by the Privacy Guarantor after a news story concerning the murder of a child 2 years. Some newspapers reported the news using the photo of [...]
Read More(by Michele Gorga, lawyer and observatory member for the coordination of DPOs, RTDs and Reputation Manager of Aidr) As regards the automated procedure for the processing of personal data for the purposes of an administrative decision, the reference standard as is well known is 'art. 22 of the GDPR of 2016/679 which provides that: "The interested party has [...]
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The British are almost as spied on as the Chinese, a team of independent researchers carried out a study that revealed the existence of around 5,2 million CCTV cameras across the country. The report compiled by CCTV.co.uk shows that there is one camera for every 13 people in the UK today. According to activists [...]
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(by Michele Gorga) We are in the home straight for the Regional, Municipal and referendum elections, but there was little election advertising, also thanks to the Covid emergency. Political communication initiatives, connected to electoral consultations, constitute a particularly significant moment of participation in democratic life as provided for by art. 49 of the Constitution. Right in […]
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(by Federica De Stefani, lawyer and head of Aidr Regione Lombardia) The sanctions deriving from unlawful data processing can be of various kinds, since, according to current legislation, criminal, administrative and civil sanctions can coexist between them, depending on the type of violation. We are generally used to thinking that the European Regulation in [...]
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The German Federal Court of Justice has ruled that intelligence agencies do not have the right to mass spy on the telecommunications of foreign citizens. The sentence, in response to a lawsuit brought by several groups of journalists after a dossier by Reporters Without Borders. Journalists collaborated with the German company for [...]
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(by Biagino Costanzo - AIDR member and co-founder of KNOSSO) In times of health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the debate on the application desired by the Government but not yet operational, called, for the moment, "Immune ". More has been said about the usefulness of its use and the risks of using it. Trying […]
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Interview with Davide D'Amico, engineer, member of the AIDR Board of Directors and MIUR manager Buongiorno dott. D'Amico, we are going through a complex time for the coronavirus emergency, although lately there have been improvements in the number of hospitalized. As AIDR you were among the first to propose a technological solution for the containment and monitoring of infections, what do you [...]
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According to the Agi, the Guarantor Authority for the protection of personal data in a memorandum presented to the Permanent Commission of the Senate highlighted that the rules for accessing databases, "monitoring" on the use of the card, and Isee certifications, website present "significant critical issues". The mechanism - said the Privacy Guarantor - [...]
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On the second day of the hearing at the Energy and Commerce Commission of the American Chamber of Representatives, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, had to address the issue of privacy. The social network does not come out very well. One of the most significant passages of yesterday's hearing appears to be the response provided by the founder and CEO of Facebook, to [...]
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According to Nova, the go-ahead was given by the Unified Conference, joint seat of the State-Regions Conference and the State-City Conference and local autonomies, for the adoption of the general guidelines of public policies for the promotion of integrated security (as required by Law Decree 20 February 2017 n. 14 containing "Urgent provisions on safety [...]
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67 percent of sites and apps do not disclose to users where their personal data is stored, and 51 percent do not clarify if and with whom the information is shared. Generic policies, inaccurate and lacking in details, and in 44 percent of cases users are not even communicated [...]
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In recent years, ransomware - viruses that are used to extort money from victims after encrypting their data and locking their computers - have become a growing concern for companies operating in any sector. Their destructive potential is enormous: in the first half of 2017, two major [...]
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