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The Italian government has adopted the “shared Protocol to regulate measures to tackle and contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the workplace”. The Protocol is the result of the mediation with the national trade unions representatives and addresses the issue of the need to collect information regarding employees accessing the employer’s premises, aiming to prevent the spread of Coronavirus.
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The Italian Data Protection Authority has heavily sanctioned abusive telemarketing practices, in particular with two very recent measures, one of December 11, 2019 to Eni Gas e Luce (EGL) with a penalty of 11.5 million euros and the other to TIM S.p.A. with a penalty of 28 million euros on January 15, 2020.
In the last months, whistleblowing has been addressed by the European legislator (through the Directive 2019/1937) and – in Italy – under a data protection stand-point also by the local Supervisory Authority thus outlining the importance of whistleblowing not only for the corporate governance of companies acting as data controllers but also for the protection of rights of the data subjects that whistleblowing inevitably entails.
The State Data Protection Inspectorate informs that employers may process certain personal data of employee’s related to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and that it is in compliance with the GDPR.
In today’s time, globally data is being recognised as one of the most valuable assets of organisations and triggering the need for a stringent level of data protection. It is against this backdrop that in July, 2017, Government of India though its Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, formed a committee, to examine and propose changes to the data protection laws in India (which are presently not as advanced and extensive as compared to European countries).
In light of the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, the Latvian data protection supervisory authority – Data State Inspectorate (DSI) published two articles, commenting on how the outbreak and actions taken to fight it have affected and possibly could affect the processing of personal data.
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In his decision of 18 February 2020 (ZSZZS.440.768.2018), the President of the Personal Data Protection Office imposed an administrative fine of PLN 20,000.00 on a school for processing biometric data (fingerprints) of children who used the school canteen and ordered the facility to remove and cease to collect such data.
As a result of the Danish Data Protection Authority’s (DATATILSYNET) serious criticism of the Danish meteorological institutes (DMI) processing of personal data in connection with the display of banner advertisements on the institute’s website, the Danish Data Protection Authority has released a new guide on processing personal data of website visitors.
On February 6th, the Italian Data Protection Authority has published its inspection plan, relating to dawn raids to be carried out in the first semester of the year (January-June 2020).
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