In the past years, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei dati personali) has made clear statements towards big technology companies introducing their services in Italy, prior to the verification of GDPR and Italian Data Protection Act compliance. We are referring to the Clearview case of 2022, that caused a fine of […]
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Retention of Metadata – legal and business impacts of the Italian DPA guideline – UPDATED
A few months ago, we delved into a new decision of the Italian data protection authority (Garante) on this blog, which recommended that employers set retention periods for their employees‘ email metadata not exceeding 7 days. This guideline created some confusion, leading the Garante to suspend its applicability and open it up for public consultation […]

Seven days to retain metadata – legal and business impacts of the Italian DPA decision
Indiscriminate and unrestricted retention of employee data (especially their emails) is a common yet dangerous violation of the GDPR that undermines workers‘ rights from multiple perspectives. But how far can GDPR compliance go without excessively hindering business needs and interests? This is the question behind one of the most recent (and discussed) decisions of the […]

Italian Antitrust ( AGCM) fines Facebook for 10 Million Euros.
At the end of last year, the Italian Authority for the competition in the marked has closed the investigations running since April 2018 against Facebook Ireland and its parent company Facebook Inc. for alleged violations of the consumers code by issuing a fine to the company of 10 Million Euros. According to the Italian Authority, […]