{"id":5660,"date":"2026-05-04T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dl-law.it\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:08:25","slug":"garante-privacy-e-mail-aziendali-e-diritto-di-accesso-dellex-dipendente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dl-law.it\/en\/garante-privacy-e-mail-aziendali-e-diritto-di-accesso-dellex-dipendente\/","title":{"rendered":"ITALIAN DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITY: CORPORATE E-MAIL AND FORMER EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT OF ACCESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

ITALIAN DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITY: CORPORATE E-MAIL AND FORMER EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT OF ACCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

With decision no. 165\/2026, the Italian Data Protection Authority sanctioned a company for denying a former employee full access to their corporate e-mail account and for retaining messages and internet logs without an adequate legal basis.<\/p>\n

In the case examined by the Authority, following the termination of the employment relationship, the former employee requested a complete copy of their corporate e-mail account.<\/p>\n

However, the company only provided messages deemed strictly personal, excluding those related to work activities and obscuring certain data without specific justification.<\/p>\n

The Authority clarified that work-related e-mails also qualify as personal data of the account holder, in light of the definitions of \u201cpersonal data\u201d and \u201cprocessing\u201d set out inArticle 4 no. 1 e no. 2 of the GDPR<\/a>, and must therefore be made accessible to the data subject.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the Authority found the company\u2019s practice of obscuring and anonymizing emails in advance unlawful, generically citing the protection of third-party rights or trade secrets. The right of access may only be restricted in cases of manifestly unfounded or excessive requests, or for the concrete protection of third-party rights.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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