The fine has been issued by the Berlin Supervisory Authority (Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit – BlnBDI) on the 20th of September to an e-Commerce company following to the identification of a conflict of interest among the roles of the appointed Data Protection Officer (DPO), as mentioned in the authority’s press release. The DPO […]
Posts by Francesca Romana Di Costanzo:
The Data Protection Officer in Europe
The EU Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of personal data (GDPR) repealing Directive 95/46/EC focusses, among the others, on a particular topic that will be governed by new specific and more consistent rules: the Data Protection Officer (DPO). This figure is already well known to European companies and institutions, but the GDPR finally clarifies and […]