The EU privacy reform providing for the adoption of the EU Data Protection Regulation has been agreed setting a milestone for the future of privacy within the EU.ย
A European cybersecurity directive is upcoming and will lead to considerable obligations, but also more certainty that might support the growth of the IoT.
The prohibition ordered to Facebook by the Belgian Privacy Commission to track users without an account might have an impact on all social media and websites.
An Internet of Things plan will be issued by the European Commission by mid-2016, but also single countries like Italy are bringing forward IoT initiatives.
The European Commission issued guidelines on how to operate following the invalidation by the European Court of Justice of the Safe Harbor privacy principles for transfers of personal data between the EU and US. But this might not be the solution of this saga.
Data generated through Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are expected to be its main source of income, but needs forward looking privacy rules to be fully exploited.
Just a few days are missing to the closure of the consultation on the Internet of Things by the Italian privacy authority which represents a good opportunity for the whole sector.
Italian banks are required to comply with strict rules in their whistleblowing procedures for reporting possible breaches in banking law regulations by the end of the year.
EU privacy regulators took their first position on the Safe Harbor decision when negotiations on the TTIP agreement between the EU and the US reach a delicate stage.
The position of a German privacy authority challenging data transfers under the EU model clauses following the Safe Harbor decision of the ECJ created a higher level of uncertainty.