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Judgment of the Court in Case C-446/21 (Communication of data to the general public)

An online social network such as Facebook cannot use all of the personal data obtained for the purposes of targeted advertising, without restriction as to time and without distinction as to type of data.

4 October 2024 · 1 min · NicFab
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Judgment of the Court in Case C-21/23 - The online sale of medicines requires the data subject’s consent

The online sale of pharmacy-only medicinal products requires the explicit consent of the customer to the processing of his or her data, even where those medicinal products do not require a prescription.

4 October 2024 · 1 min · NicFab

Judgment of the Court in Case C-768/21 (Obligation of the data protection authority to act)

Personal data protection: the supervisory authority is not obliged to exercise a corrective power in all cases of breach and, in particular, to impose a fine

26 September 2024 · 1 min · NicFab
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The EDPS published the Model Administrative Arrangement for transfers of personal data

EDPS Model

31 July 2024 · 1 min · NicFab
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The European Commission published the Second Report on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation

The second report on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

30 July 2024 · 1 min · NicFab
EDPB Documents

Main EDPB Documents (updated on 12/1/2023)

List of the key adopted and published documents by the European Data Protection Board - EDPB

12 January 2023 · 33 min · NicFab
DMA

Data Protection and privacy between European digital sovereignty and Digital Markets Act (DMA)

Some considerations to bear in mind and on which to ponder.

4 July 2022 · 11 min · NicFab
Fine anno 2021

ePrivacy Regulation: the current Perspective

Foto di Pavan Trikutam Previous Next     / [pdf] View the PDF file here. The subject is pretty challenging indeed, considering that the EU proposal on the e-Privacy regulation is under the Institutions’ attention and not defined yet. I created a map consisting of eight sections, where I included all (I hope) the issues related to the proposal on the ePrivacy Regulation, and I will comment on it in each Section. ...

7 December 2021 · 12 min · NicFab
Fine anno 2021

Contact tracing and privacy: an oxymoron. Any technical solution is neutral compared to privacy laws

The content of this post is available in PDF for download here: 1. Chronology of events During the last month, i.e. since the focus has increased on the incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to personal data protection, we have witnessed the publication of the following main measures issued by some institutional bodies: ...

14 April 2020 · 16 min · NicFab
Fine anno 2021

Coronavirus emergency and privacy: valid the juridical approach to the GDPR

The contribution has been published today by Broadband 4 Europe, here. 1. Introduction As is it well-known, the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has profoundly changed our life, habits, communication and interaction between people, ways of working, etc. In essence, we are experiencing a situation that appears surreal because of the consequent behavioural rules that we are obliged to respect with social distancing to fight the battle of COVID-19. This pandemic situation, which in addition to Italy is leading many other states to adopt the most appropriate prevention measures, also entails a series of questions regarding the protection of personal data with which one must confront. The pandemic does not require new rules on the protection of personal data, except in the terms illustrated in more detail below, being sufficient to respect those currently in force. Moreover, in this sense is the statement of the Chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), published on 16/03/2020 entitled “Statement of the EDPB Chair on the processing of personal data in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak”. Andrea Jelinek said: ...

19 March 2020 · 10 min · NicFab