Una violazione di sicurezza che comporta (accidentalmente o in modo illecito) la distruzione, la perdita, la modifica, la divulgazione non autorizzata o l’accesso ai dati personali trasmessi, conservati o comunque trattati. Questo è il data breach, ossia la violazione dei dati personali: una piaga tutta contemporanea che, ai tempi della clamorosa accelerazione digitale, sta mettendo…
Ask for information We are now less than a year away from the effective implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is intended to replace the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Companies will have until May 25, 2018 to regularize, exceeded this date the anomalies found will lead to fines of up to 20…
Ask for information Approximately nine months separate us from the entry into force of the GDPR, the new European regulation on the protection of personal data, yet the awareness of organizations/companies about this change is still very low. According to a survey conducted by NTT Security, the assumption is that many business executives around the…
Ask for information The EU Regulation no. 2016/679, better known as GDPR, has brought with it many innovations including the introduction of the DPO – Data Protection Officer, i.e. a point of connection between the owner and manager on the one hand and the Supervisory Authority on the other. This is a real professional figure…
Following the entry into force of the GDPR, you will have noticed that your email inbox is constantly bombarded with messages of an informative nature and with requests for authorisation to use personal data: “We have updated our privacy policy” are the words of most of these messages, in which the recipient’s silence is tantamount…
From words to deeds: a few months after the rumours created by the issue of international importance, better known as the ‘Cambridge Analytica scandal’, the first fine has arrived for Facebook. It was the British who decreed the sanction, announcing a preliminary fine of 500,000 pounds (565,000 euros), i.e. the maximum amount allowed; the fault…
Three months after the GDPR came into force, it is time to take stock. There are a number of points to be considered in view of the scope of this new legislation and in view of the fact that the scenarios that will undoubtedly alarm companies the most have yet to be tested, i.e. the…
Once again this year we take a look at the curious rankingof the worst passwords of 2018: it seems that the “symphony” -compared to the 2017 data – has not changed much. The source is again SplashData: its analysis was based on more than five million passwords leaked on the Internet this year, on a…
Anche quest’anno diamo un’occhiata alla curiosa classifica riguardante le peggiori password del 2018: pare che la “sinfonia” -rispetto ai dati 2017- non sia molto cambiata. La fonte è sempre SplashData: la sua analisi si è basata su oltre cinque milioni di password trapelate su Internet quest’anno, su scala mondiale. Stabili al primo e secondo posto…
La figura del Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali ha senz’altro acquisito un certo rilievo negli ultimi mesi. Lo si può identificare come il giudice supremo, colui che vigila sulla corretta applicazione della normativa sulla privacy -il ben noto GDPR- e che ne prende i provvedimenti in caso di non rispetto. In precedenti occasioni…