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Contribution by Nicola Fabiano and Filippo Bianchini The issue of identity theft is not new, since the phenomenon is ancient. In Italy, a definition of the phenomenon was provided by Article 30-bis of Legislative Decree no. 141 of 13/8/2010, concerning “Implementation of Directive 2008/48/EC on credit agreements for consumers, as well as amendments to Title VI of the Consolidated Banking Act (Legislative Decree no. 385 of 1993) regarding the regulation of operators in the financial sector, agents in financial activities and credit brokers”. The aforementioned Article 30-bis (entitled “Definitions”) states: ...

Legislative Decree 10/08/2018, no. 101 was published in the Official Gazette no. 205 of 4/9/2018, containing “Provisions for the adaptation of national legislation to the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)”. ...

EU Regulation 2016/679, relating to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data, introduces the figure of the representative who, in Article 4, paragraph 1, is defined as follows: “17) ‘representative’: a natural or legal person established in the Union who, designated by the controller or the processor in writing pursuant to Article 27, represents them with regard to their respective obligations under this Regulation”. ...

On January 12, 2018 the advanced training course on personal data protection for professional training of the Data Protection Responsible, better known as Data Protection Officer (DPO), will begin. The course - which enjoys the patronage of the Data Protection Authority - was activated in implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding of April 28, 2017, signed between the National Bar Council (CNF) and the National Council of Engineers (CNI), on a project by the Italian Foundation for Forensic Innovation (FIIF) and thanks to the interest of the two National Councilors Lawyer Carla Secchieri and Engineer Luca Scappini who assume its coordination. ...