The CNF has published guidelines for lawyers in the field of protection of personal data - Legal office Pavia and Ansaldo

Milan, may, - At the outset of the twenty-five of may, the date on which the Regulation (EU) will become applicable, the CNF has published on its website the guidelines for lawyers regarding the protection of personal data. In a circular accompanied by two attachments - one dedicated to the model information and one to a register of the treatments - the CNF makes it clear that the protection of customer data, in addition to being essential to ensure the professional secrecy, is a notion of transparency and confidentiality in the relationshipThe lawyer is, in addition to the data of customers, data of employees, collaborators, the data collected through the website, even in the hypothesis in which the firm has outsourced to third parties some services (for example storage of data in the cloud), or use their means of communication to a third party (for example, web site consultation services online) will have to pay attention to that the data are processed in a secure way. The necessity of the appointment of a DPO in accordance with the CNF must be evaluated on a case-by-case on the basis of a series of parameters (the number of people affected by the processing volume of the data processed geographical extent of the activity of treatment) in each case, we note that the the designation of a DPO may also be evaluated as an opportunity organizational in now essential for the management of the treatments. Disclaimer this press release is disclosed for the purpose of knowledge to promote the value of legal information Does not constitute an opinion and may not be used as a substitute for the advice of an, nor to overcome the lack of legal assistance specific.