Data protection breaches of health related sensitive data might occur through a mere video scanning an individual's face according to a recent research. 

This is a quite unusual post for this blog, but the relevance of the conference justifies that.  I am interested in participating as a speaker to the Web Summit, the largest technology conference in the world, next November in order to cover legal issues relevant for the Internet of Things.  

For those that missed some of the articles of last month, here are the top 5 posts for July 2014!

The approval of technical standards introducing an RFID logo and a process for their data protection impact assessment required to comply with the EU Recommendation on RFIDs are expected to boost their usage in several fields including the Internet of Things.

Data protection issues for Google in Italy are not over.  The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has now challenged their privacy information notice requiring - among others - an express consent from users to their profiling for marketing purposes leading to issues that might impact any business based on the processing of BIG DATA such as the Internet of Things and in general on behavioural advertising.

Mobile payments are now subject to more stringent privacy obligations as a consequence of the decision of the Italian Data Protection Authority subsequent to the consultation previously covered.