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Right to be forgotten and balance with the right to information.

The Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione), recently returned to the topic of the so-called right to be forgotten, affirmed the need to preserve the historicity of news when it is of interest to the community and to the economic and social history of a Country, while reaffirming the need to balance the interest of the community to maintain the memory of past news with the interest of the individual to maintain control of his or her personal data. From this point of view, the Court considers the deindexing of news on the web together with its updating to be an appropriate measure to balance the individual’s right to be forgotten with the collective right to information.

Leasing contract transfer: applicable regulations in case of termination.

In the event of termination of the contract, the rules on the sale by retainment of the title may apply, with particular emphasis on the rule providing for the restoration of the original position of the contracting parties, which may only be applicable in the event that the termination of said contract was for failure.
However, in the case of consensual termination, the previous relationship is retrospectively invalid from the beginning, as such the aforementioned legal regulations do not apply

Data breach: accidental dissemination of whistleblowers’ data.

Rome’s University “La Sapienza” ended up in the Italian Data Protection Authority’s sights after having notified a violation of personal data as required by art. 33 of the Regulations. Such violation concerned the disclosure of personal data processed through the University’s platform used for the management of offence reports by employees and third parties within the whistleblowing regime. Following the notification breach, the Authority initiated investigations. Violations of the measures provided in the Regulations for the protection of personal data were ascertained, with particular emphasis to the provisions relating to the current security measures in force.