Digital Privacy and Data Protection between person
fundamental rights and the market
Florence, 23 October 2017
Conference - Round Table with the Chairman of the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data Dr. ANTONELLO SORO - CESIFIN Foundation - Palazzo Incontri, 3.30 pm
Scientific event promoted by Attorney and Professor EMILIO TOSI, Adjunct Professor of Private Law at the University of Milan Bicocca, Editor of the High Tech Law HTL® series and Managing Partner of Tosi & Partner High Tech Legal®®
Milan, 20 September 2017
On 25 May 2018, the broad reform of the privacy rules dictated by EU Regulation 679/2016, better known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), will become mandatory and fully effective.
Several new features will require appropriate study and adequate implementation, including, but not limited to, the following: privacy impact assessment, Data Protection Officer, the right to be forgotten, the right to Data Portability, privacy by design and privacy by default, accountability, as well as a strict sanctions structure.
The EU Commission has also started the process to reform Directive 2002/58/EC (the so-called “ePrivacy Directive”), aimed at standardizing the current continental regulatory framework regarding the circulation of personal data in electronic communications as well as regulating Machine-to-Machine communications involved in the new technological phenomenon of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data.
The context of the new community rules is the Digital Single Market (DSM), a market in which the free circulation of goods, people, services, capital, in addition to information, is guaranteed under conditions of fair competition and a high level of protection of consumers and their personal data.
A fundamental pillar of the DSM is the new harmonized European regulatory framework that implements the precepts contained in art. 7 (Right to respect for private and family life) and in art. 8 (Protection of personal data) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
The clear perception is that the protection of privacy and the protection of personal data - notwithstanding the significant new elements in the GDPR and other questions being defined in the field of digital privacy - are still substantially incomplete, and are quite far from having reached a definitive consensus among the main players in the global markets.
For these and other reasons faced with the imminent date of full application and after more than 20 years have passed since the first European legislation on the protection of personal data, EC Directive 46/1995 - it is now appropriate to discuss the principal legal aspects of this reform and the essential components of digital privacy that still need to be defined.
This important Conference, promoted by the CESIFIN Foundation in cooperation with the High Tech Law HTL® – Legal Studies for Innovation® series will be opened by the Director of DNT®, Attorney and Professor Emilio TOSI – - Professor of Private Law and Law of New Technologies at the University of Milan Bicocca, Managing Partner of TOSI & PARTNERS HIGH TECH LEGAL® ® - who will present the Conference after the opening speech of Dr. Antonello SORO, Chairman of the the Italian Authority for the Protection of personal data.
Following the conference, there will be an high standing Round Table discussion of the new GDPR with the participation of the most authoritative Scholars on the subject.
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3 Professional Training Credits
Law Society of Florence
