Law 30 june 2003 n. 196
(Code for the protection of personal information)
Article 7
Right of access to personal information and other rights
1. In relation to the treatment of personal information, the interested
subject has the right to obtain the confirmation of the existence or
non-existence of personal information involving him/her, whether already
filed or not, and the comprehensible notification of said information.
2. The interested person has the right to obtain the indication of:
a) purposes and modality of the treatment.
b) logic applied in case of treatment with electronic instruments.
c) identity of the holder, responsibles and person by article 5.2.
d) subjects to which the personal information can be communicate or
that they can know in quality of representative designated in the territory
of the State or responsibles.
3. The interested persons has the right to obtain:
a) the updating, correction or, if so required, integration of said
information.
b) cancellation, transformation into an anonymous form or obstruction
of information handled in violation of the law, including information
that is not required to be kept for the purposes for which the information
was collected or subsequently used.
c) the declaration that the transactions pursuant to points a) and b)
have been brought to the knowledge of those to whom said information
has been notified or disclosed – also with regard to the content
of said information – except when fulfillment hereof should prove
to be impossible or require the use of means that are patently disproportionate
with respect to the right that is being safeguarded.
4. The interested persons has the right, fully or in part, to prohibit:
a) use, for legitimate reasons, of personal information that involve
him/her, even if pertinent to the purposes of said information collection.
b) use of personal information concerning him/her for the purposes of
commercial information or mailing of advertising or direct-sales material,
or for conducting market research or interactive commercial communications.