The Future of Privacy

The Future of Privacy is the theme of a webinar series developed in collaboration with Eyd and Personverndagene. We will air approximately one webinar per month until Personverndagene kicks off in mid-September 2026.

Agenda

Earlier this spring, Italy's data protection authority fined the owners of two mobile banking apps a combined €12.5 million. Not for a breach. For how a component used in both apps was designed to work on users' phones. The companies had compliance arguments. They pointed to security regulations around EU payments. They said the data collection was necessary for fraud prevention. The Garante looked at what the app actually did on users' phones and found it disproportionate.

This case is a reminder that compliance documentation and technical reality don't always match. 

In this conversation we will explore:

1. What actually happened in the Italian Poste case, and why the compliance arguments didn't hold up
2. The structural blind spot: why traditional compliance work — policies, DPIAs, vendor contracts — struggles to catch what software components are doing on a user's device
3. Where legal advisory ends and compliance technology begins
4. What it takes for a GDPR specialist with 20+ years of experience to decide that legal expertise alone isn't enough — and start building software
5. Where compliance and legal tech is heading, and what it means for organisations that still rely on self-declarations and manual assessments