Chamber of Deputies Hearing on Privacy
The dissemination of emergency regulations in the health protection system
data and the need for coordination.
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has also had an impact, from an objective and subjective point of view, on the regulatory framework regarding the protection of personal data, constituting
It is also the first real test of the validity of the rules introduced by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The emergency has led to the emergence of a sort of "special right" to the processing of personal data spread across various regulations, which, although moving in line with European and national regulations on the protection of personal data, should be in some way
coordinated manner, in order to avoid possible antinomies.
In particular, as of today, 19 May 2020, the provisions (among others) that have had the greatest impact on the protection of personal data in the emergency context are:
Article 14 of Legislative Decree no. 14/2020 containing “Urgent provisions for the strengthening of the National Health Service in relation to the COVID-19 emergency”, entitled ”Measures to strengthen the National Health Service and economic support for families, workers and businesses related to the COVID-19 epidemiological emergency” in (GU.
17.03.2020, n. 70), which later became art. 17 bis of law 27/2020.
Article 6 of Legislative Decree No. 28 of April 30, 2020, regarding wiretapping, remote criminal proceedings, prison regulations, and contact tracing and COVID-19 infections. .
Legislative Decree 10 May 2020, n. 30, Urgent measures regarding studies
epidemiological and statistical data on SARS-COV-2. (20G00048) (Official Journal General Series no. 119 of 10-05-2020); 11/05/2020 and the related opinion of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data.
Articles 7, 11, and 13 of the so-called Relaunch Decree.
There Relation published at the Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies
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