Following others, also the Italian DPA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) came to the conclusion that Google Analytics do not offer the safeguards set out in the GDPR and the transfer of data to the US is illegit as the US legislation does not currently offer adequate data protection. In its release, the...
The Italian DPA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has sanctioned the public administration INAL with a €50,000 fine for three recorded incidents that resulted in unauthorized access to sensitive data of some beneficiaries. The Garante underlines that all public bodies, in particular those with relevant institutional duties, must adopt adequate technical and organizational...
The Italian DPA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has sanctioned Uber with a €4.240m fine for lack of transparency in the privacy policies, and missed notifications for a data breach occurred in 2017. Find the decision of the Garante (in Italian) here.
The Italian Inter-Ministerial Committee for Cybersecurity chaired by the Prime Minister Mario Draghi, has approved the National Cybersecurity Strategy (2022-2026) and the related Implementation Plan. Through the two approved documents the Government aims to address a plurality of challenges such as: strengthening resilience across the Italian digital transition; the achievement of strategic autonomy in the...
While the Italian State Police had managed to thwart cyber attacks against the Eurovision Song Contest on 14 May 2022, the cyber criminals group Killnet is allegedly behind the DDoS attack which is blocking the website of the Italian State Police. Read more here and here.
The Italian Computer Security Incident Response Team has released an overview of the recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that occurred starting from 11 May this year. First of all, the type of DDOS attacks used is identified, in particular the “Slow HTTP” attack, then the operating technique of this attack is described and...
The Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (the Italian DPA) has sanctioned Clearview AI with a €20M fine for violations of the GDPR and has requested immediate deletion of it’s existing databases of Italian citizens’ images. Clearview AI is a US company which collects photos from the web and through AI analyses, processes and...
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