Supreme Court of Cassation and unlawful data protection crime.

According to the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation's ruling no. 22/43 as of January 20th, 2022, the crime of unlawful data processing cannot be grounded on the simple breach of the prohibition of processing, being also necessary that it occurs in violation of articles 2-sexies and 2-octies of the Italian Data Protection Code or by infringing the guarantee measures referred to in art. 2-septies.