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Francesca Gaudino is the Head of Baker McKenzie’s Information Technology & Communications Group in Milan. She focuses on data protection and security, advising particularly on legal issues that arise in the use of cutting edge technology. She has been recognized in Chambers Europe’s individual lawyer rankings from 2011 to 2014. Ms. Gaudino is a regular contributor on international publications such as World Data Protection Review, DataGuidance, and others. She routinely holds lectures on data privacy and security at post-graduate courses of SDA – Manager Direction School of the Milan Bocconi University and Almaweb – University of Bologna. She regularly speaks at national and international conferences and workshops on the same topics.
In Data & Technology Disputes

Italy: Disputes in the tech sector – Law and Practice

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I OVERVIEW Technology disputes in Italy involve a large and varied amount of litigation, ranging across sectors covered by traditional patents (mechanical, electronic and pharmaceutical), telecommunications and other fields that are often hotbeds of new industry technology standards that can be protected by standard-essential patents (SEPs). Such standards may, in turn, generate licensing disputes. Disputes also often occur in sectors that involve more innovative and trend-setting technologies, such as the use of algorithms, artificial intelligence…

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EDPB Publishes Guidelines on Examples Regarding Data Breach Notification

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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently published the draft Guidelines on Examples Regarding Data Breach Notification, a document that encompasses eighteen examples of data security incidents, on a spectrum of risk and necessary mitigating measures. Each example concludes with recommended actions based on the identified risks, mainly: recording the incident in the organization’s internal register, notifying the organization’s supervisory authority, and notifying affected individuals. The Guidelines are currently open for public consultation. The Guidelines include…

In Digitalization

Digitization of the workplace: balancing remote controls with the right to privacy

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It is no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic has given companies a boost in implementing work-from-home solutions. However, even before that, smart working has always been part of the employment relationship and, together with it, the need to ensure that efficiency and performance levels were met, regardless of the premises from which the employee was working. Technology offers a number of solutions to set up corporate surveillance, in its broadest sense. Indeed, it is not…