With COVID emergency and the consequent lockdown, the number of people who use internet and digital devices has increased considerably. The number of cases of “digital infection”,  particularly from ransomware, has increased accordingly. The Italian Data Protection Authority has recently published an informative guide lines regarding preventive methods to be adopted.

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.