WhatsApp opens username reservations in Italy: here's how to choose your username, what it's for, and why it lets you chat without displaying your number.
In his speech at the inauguration of the academic year at the School of Economic and Financial Police at Lido di Ostia, the Governor of the Bank of Italy emphasized the fight against the irregular economy: "Legality is not only an inviolable principle, but a force that generates…
China tightens control over citizens' activities with a new digital identity recognition app. Through access to user data, the app will manage Chinese citizens' activities through a centralized channel
The Irish Data Protection Commission has imposed a record fine on Bytedance, the parent company of the popular social network, for illegally transferring personal data of European users to China, in violation of GDPR regulations. The company promises to appeal
The Privacy Guarantor has ordered the blocking of DeepSeek "to protect Italians": here's why. The Chinese AI had just disappeared from Apple and Google's digital stores in our country
The Italian data protection authority has fined OpenAI €15 million for improperly handling user data. The decision, which follows an investigation that lasted more than a year, includes ordering an information campaign…
Intesa Sanpaolo, in response to the provision of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data, announces new measures to strengthen data security and collaborates with the Authorities. The Bank confirms that there is no evidence of access or communications…
To begin to dispel the shadows caused by the spying on current accounts and customer cards by the Apulian banker, already fired by Intesa Sanpaolo in August, the bank's CEO Carlo Messina will propose the appointment of Carabinieri General De…
WhatsApp is about to launch important updates: the introduction of usernames and Pin for greater privacy protection, and the new "Privacy Checkup" function
The new guidelines from the European Privacy Supervisor offer guidance to European institutions on the responsible use of generative AI in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The document aims to protect the privacy of citizens and…
The Mountain View giant thus puts an end to a class action that accused it of tracking users who browsed in "incognito" mode without their consent. However, there will be no compensation for users who will only be able to sue individually.…
The stock on the stock market loses more than 1%. The fine concerns the personal data breach that occurred in 2018 which involved thousands of customers and former customers. The bank will appeal
It happens every year: during the holidays, attempts at online scams increase and new ones appear such as fake emails, fake invoices, silent phone calls, incessant WhatsApp messages and more. The preferred medium is the smartphone. And the Guarantor of…
Tomorrow, the European Commission is ready to present a new proposal to strengthen the GDPR and facilitate cooperation between the 27 member states in cross-border investigations. Eyes are always focused on the giants of the Web, already tested by the introduction…
The European Antitrust has sanctioned the company of Mark Zuckerberg. The accusation is of having transferred data from the EU to America without guarantees of privacy. 5 months to stop sending data. Meta doesn't fit and appeals
Clarification by the National Labor Inspectorate regarding the release of the provision authorizing the installation of IT tools for controlling workers, also in consideration of the guidelines of the Privacy Guarantor
OpenAI has responded to the requests of the Privacy Guarantor. The platform reopens in Italy, guaranteeing more transparency and more rights for European users and non-users
There are 19 platforms that will be under scrutiny by the European Commission from 25 August. Four months to align their policies with the new Digital Services Act guidelines
Illegal collection of personal data and the absence of systems for verifying the age of minors are the reasons underlying the Authority's decision. OpenAI will have 20 days to communicate countermeasures. He risks fines of up to 20 million or up to 4%…
According to Janan Ganesh, political commentator for FT, the English and Italian crisis once again reveal the poverty of political talent: higher salaries and greater privacy push talent towards private professions rather than towards…
The Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data (GPDP) has turned 25: with the arrival of the Internet and social networks, everything has changed and the horizon is that of global rules
The Privacy Guarantor opens an investigation into apps that listen to users 24 hours a day - This is a very intrusive but little-known practice, which serves to offer customized advertising
According to the Irish Data Protection Commission WhatsApp would have violated the transparency obligations on the communication relating to the use of personal data, sharing user data with Facebook, from which it is controlled, without providing information
INTERVIEW with PIETRO ICHINO, labor lawyer and former center-left parliamentarian - "I appreciate the line of gradualness on Draghi's Green Pass" but we must go on - Colossal instead the contradictions of the "Taliban" line of the Privacy Guarantor which "sacrifices the…
94% of users want full privacy protection - That's why the App Tracking Transparency that allows the iPhone user to deny his tracking while using an app has put the relationship between the…
In the week of accounts that will confirm the excellent state of health of the big Hi-Tech USA, war breaks out between Facebook and Apple due to the latest iOS 14 update which reduces the tracking capacity of Apps and advertising platforms
On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard, which over the years has become the most popular social network with 2,7 billion users - The intrusion into privacy and the political use of personal data as well as the permanence of too many fake news…
The decree for the application that will trace the infections has been approved by the Council of Ministers - Guidelines for the functioning and protection of privacy have been established - Doubts about the name, it could change. Race to activate it by May 18th
Courtesy of the publisher, we are publishing an excerpt from the book "Platform Society. Public values and connected society", published in Italian by Guerini and written by three professors from the University of Amsterdam on topics that the pandemic has made even more topical
VPNs are on everyone's lips, not just techies. They were born as a solution to join distant corporate networks using the Internet, but remaining in the private sphere. Now they have become a system to obtain particular advantages in the use of contents…
After the 4,8 million inflicted by the Antitrust, another heavy fine for the six-legged dog: this time it is imposed by the Privacy Guarantor, against Eni Gas and Luce - The company reserves the right to appeal.
According to the Federprivacy Observatory, the authorities of Italy, Spain and Romania are the most active, the highest fines in the UK. But Facebook, Amazon, Twitter get away with it thanks to the Irish Authority
The vote scheduled for December 19 has been postponed to a later date - Yet another extension decree is arriving - Authorities blocked by the tug of war between the parties
The Privacy Guarantor Authority filed a brief in the Labor Committee of the Senate in which it raises a series of objections on the controls and mechanisms of the citizen's income.
The Opposition Register will extend to paper, mobile phones and reserved numbers. But so far it has proved to be a half-flop: the implementing decree still in the Ministry of Development is missing. Months of delay despite the solicitations of the Privacy Guarantor, Antonello…
Clients' rights in terms of privacy are a value of primary importance for all professional firms. A summary of the most important adjustments required by the new European privacy law (GDPR) can be useful for making a checklist…
Two months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social network is back in the storm - According to the NYT it would have shared user data with the manufacturers of smartphones, tablets, etc. without their explicit consent. - Facebook defends itself: "Information…
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The Cambridge Analityca scandal has discovered Pandora's box and highlighted that the enormous power of Facebook goes far beyond privacy - Here's what Facebook really knows about us - Yours is a memory of…
From 25 May the new European regulation, known as GDPR, enters into force - Here are the new indications that must be included in the privacy policies - Heavy fines for those who fail
Users between 13 and 15 will need parental permission to perform specific actions on the social network, otherwise they will see a less personalized version, with less relevant ads and limited advertising
In a few days Facebook suspends the accounts of two companies that allegedly used user data improperly: CubeYou and AggregateIQ - The Cambridge Analytica scandal spreads and the position of the social network could worsen while Marc Zuckenberg…
Tim Cook attacks Facebook and gets ahead of EU legislation. With iOS 11.3 it is possible to modify or delete the data held by Apple - Battery news: users will be able to disable the slowdown desired by the Apple giant
Facebook locks itself down after the Cambridge Analytica case - From today and in the coming weeks there will be important news on privacy control - Here are the new tools available to investments from all over the world.
A public debate promoted yesterday in Rome by Assonime ignited a lively debate on the best way to defend privacy after the recent scandals that have shocked public opinion especially in the US and in view of the entry into force of the new…
A class action lawsuit triggered in California that could pave the way for many other legal actions around the world - The Ftc opens an investigation: in the event that the violation of privacy is ascertained, Facebook risks 40 thousand dollars in…
An administrative fine of 840 thousand euros is on the way for making promotional calls without consent to former customers who had not given the authorization to receive commercial calls or had revoked it.
A new book published by goWare discusses, through the interventions of some big names in global journalism, the consequences of the sentence that proved wrestler Hulk Hogan right in the lawsuit against the information site Gawker - There is a…
From K4Biz - Congress voted last week to eliminate consent for the transfer of data collected by Internet Providers. Now only Donald Trump's signature is missing and no more consent will be needed
The research carried out by the international law firm DLA Piper shows how companies still have limited awareness of data protection and how much work there is still to be done in view of the entry into force at all…
Twenty years after the first Italian law on privacy, the European regulation on the subject came into force which provides two years for the Member States and for the companies concerned to adapt - The greater protection of citizens…
"We advise all our customers to always download the latest version of iOS" said Apple - The most popular software update in the world has been released urgently due to possible flaws that are very dangerous for users -…
In recent days, the Court of Cassation filed the sentence confirming the maxi-fine of 300 thousand euros to Fastweb for promotional offers that irregularly used public telephone directories without the knowledge of the subscribers - The sentence, which…
The multinational claims that the Obama administration violates the constitution by preventing it from notifying thousands of customers of government requests to access their data and their digital correspondence.
In the official blog, the co-founders explain that the initiative is aimed at reassuring against possible intrusions by criminals: "End-to-end encryption makes communication via WhatsApp similar to face-to-face".
American companies that want to import European data into the USA will have to undertake to respect a series of constraints - For the first time, the USA has given written assurances that access by American public authorities for compliance with…
Can employees be fired for an email? Absolutely not. After the sentence of the European Court which confirmed the dismissal of an engineer after checks on his company email, the Privacy Guarantor intervened to explain the reasons…
With the amendments to article 4 of the workers' statute, it will now be easier to control the activity of employees also through work tools such as company mobile phones - But first it is necessary to inform the worker comprehensively. Here are some…
The European Court rejects the personal data protection system of the United States - The Facebook case: now European states can block the archiving of photos, videos and texts in the overseas database - The sentence comes after the…
The case of the site for secret meetings between people who are already romantically involved has demonstrated how little attention is paid to data confidentiality, both by those responsible for the privacy of others and by the owners of the…
A survey of 21 million users of the Japanese-Japanese company Kobo reveals that those who buy ebooks read only a part of them and Italians are not among the worst - Bestsellers are the most disappointing - The American publisher goes against the trend…
On 8 October 2014, the Commission for rights and duties relating to the Internet launched a draft declaration of rights on the Internet, which is published today on the Chamber's website and also on the Civic Media platform…
During the investigation launched a year ago, "several critical profiles emerged relating to inadequate information to users, the failure to request consent for profiling purposes, the uncertain data retention times and dictated a series of…
The Mountain View cars that take up the streets of the whole world to allow users to see every inch of asphalt on Google Maps are under accusation - In Italy, the Privacy Guarantor has sanctioned the company for…
The Seattle group hacked into a blogger's accounts to track down one of his former employees, who was responsible for a leak - All legal, but the debate on the confidentiality of their data is rekindled - A grain in…
The social network giant would spy on users' private messages and then sell the data to advertisers - The accusation is contained in a class action filed by two American citizens in a northern California court -…
Larnier's complaint: if the web is increasingly invasive and controls the consumer, the responsibility lies not only with the search engines of large commercial corporations but with our digital passivity - From the new Google mantra (intelligence…
Here are the changes that the Privacy Guarantor has imposed on the Revenue Agency to give the go-ahead to the new Redditometro - The presumed expenses based only on the Istat average cannot be used: taxpayers' incomes must be…
The go-ahead on the so-called incomementro is definitive, but the authority has nonetheless "requested the Revenue Agency to adopt a series of measures and tricks to minimize the risks to people's privacy"
Le Monde has revealed that in just 30 days the NSA, the American security agency, would have recorded over 70 million telephone calls from French citizens - Foreign minister Laurent Fabius summoned US ambassador Rivkin and defined…
FINANCIAL TIMES INVESTIGATION on the personal data market - The simplest information (age and gender) concerning us is sold at the price of 0,0005 dollars per person - The sellers of our personal profiles are companies specialized in…
In the first position is France, which has already launched its battle some time ago, and then Holland, Spain, Germany, some British organizations and now also Italy through the initiative of the president of the Authority for the protection of personal data, Antonello…
The Privacy Guarantor gave a favorable opinion: however, it is a "yes" conditional on acceptance of some indications from the Authority and also on future checks that the Guarantor will carry out on the new data transmission platform.
The US and EU privacy authorities are already investigating the IT giant of the most used search engine in the world - Google would have used information from millions of users of the Apple browser, Safari - Full willingness to collaborate…
According to Francesco Pizzetti, the new rules on administrative transparency in tax controls even represent "strong breaches of the rule of law" - We are living in an "emergency phase which we need to get out of as soon as possible".
PIERGAETANO MARCHETTI'S SPEECH AT BOCCONI - According to the president of RCS, the digital revolution offers enormous opportunities but also raises delicate unsolved problems: the first of all concerns the protection of privacy - The flood of news or presumed news…
WEB JOURNALISM - Who needs the unification of privacy codes? To users or advertisers? There is already controversy over the news announced by Google - Users will be able to be better identified and for the hunt for advertising it is an opportunity…
Viviane Reding, European commissioner for privacy, has developed two measures to revolutionize the protection of personal data on the Internet - The first rule concerns citizens caught by judicial measures and security measures - The second i…
The Facebook conference held by Mark Zuckerberg on the future novelties of the social network has brought many surprises for its members, at the same time making new opportunities for those who look at the platform as the best measurement system to discover…
