Luca Bolognini (1979) is a European privacy and data protection lawyer, admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court. Leading Individual Data Privacy and Data Protection The Legal 500 (Italy) 2020-2021-2022-2023. Ranked Chambers Europe 2022-2023. President of the Italian Institute for Privacy and Data Valorisation (Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati), founded in 2008. Founding partner of the international law firm ICT Legal Consulting, with offices in Rome, Milan, Bologna, Amsterdam, Athens, Helsinki, Madrid, Paris, Lagos, Melbourne and partner law firms in other 53 countries, and co-founder of ICTLC SpA and of the Italian cybersecurity firm ICT Cyber Consulting srl. He teaches privacy and data law at several universities and master courses in Italy and overseas, and acts as ethics & privacy advisor for various EU research and innovation projects on smart cities, Big Data, cybersecurity and the Internet of Things. Luca is co-chair of the Europrivacy GDPR certification International Board of Senior Experts and co-chair of the annual international conference Privacy Symposium in Venice. Author of many articles for national and international magazines, newspapers and scientific journals, he has published books and essays with Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, RCS Etas, Corriere della Sera, Giappichelli, Rubbettino and Springer (including the best-seller volume “Il Regolamento Privacy Europeo“, the first Italian commentary on the GDPR, and the pamphlet “A.I. Artificial Insanity – Reflections on the resilience of human intelligence”). In 2022, his lateral thinking book “The Art of Privacy“.
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Luca Bolognini (1979) is a European privacy and data protection lawyer, admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court. President of the Italian Institute for Privacy and Data Valorisation (Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati), founded in 2008. Luca is a member of the Rome Bar Association and founding partner of the law firm ICT Legal Consulting with offices in Milan, Rome, Bologna, Amsterdam, Athens, Helsinki, Madrid, Paris, Lagos, Melbourne and partner law firms in 53 other countries. Leading Individual Data Privacy and Data Protection The Legal 500 (Italy) 2020-2021-2022-2023. Ranked Chambers Europe 2022-2023. Recommended Lawyer The Legal 500 EMEA 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2020 – 2021 – 2022. IAPP Member, CIPP/E and TÜV Italia Certified Privacy Officer. He has co-founded ICTLC SpA and the cybersecurity firm ICT Cyber Consulting srl.
He obtained his Law degree from the Alma Mater University of Bologna. Luca serves as an independent ethics & privacy Advisor for several European research and innovation projects (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe) and as an expert coach for the Executive Agency for Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) of the European Commission. In 2017, he founded the “CNAC – National Center Anti-Cyberbullying”, supported by relevant Italian and international companies and law firms. He has published studies on data protection and other legal aspects concerning Artificial Intelligence, e-Privacy, secondary use of data in the scientific research, R&D and marketing fields, Big Data, international data transfers, cloud & edge computing, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, smart contracts, fintech, e-health, data processing liability and privacy “class actions”, right to monetize data, freedom of information, right to be forgotten, minors’ privacy, profiling, and pseudonymization for scientific journals and both national and international newspapers.
Since 2023, Luca Bolognini has been appointed as scientific director, with R. Imperiali, of the Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre’s “IUS Privacy Portal” in Italy. Luca is a member of the Experts Board of EU-IoT, co-chair of the Europrivacy GDPR Certification International Board of Senior Experts and co-chair of the annual international conference Privacy Symposium in Venice. He regularly participates as a speaker to national and international conferences (including ITU Telecom World, IoT Week, Annual Privacy Forum, Privacy Day Forum, CPDP) and radio/TV broadcasts on innovation policies matters. He has lectured at Bologna Business School, Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione, CNR Pisa, Università Statale di Milano, IED, IPSOA and TÜV Sud Privacy Officer mastercourses and at several other training and higher education programs and masters in Italy. From 2010 to 2019, he has been in charge of teaching privacy law at the SSPL at the Faculty of Law of the University of Teramo, Italy. In the last 15 years, Luca’s been in charge of teaching EU data protection law at the Master in Big Data Management at LUISS Guido Carli, at the Master in cybersecurity, data protection and privacy at University of Rome Tor Vergata, at the Master in Labour Law at Unimercatorum, at the Master in Data Protection Officer at Politecnico di Milano, at the Master “Professionisti della digitalizzazione e della privacy” at University Unitelma Sapienza, at the Master in Intelligenza Artificiale, Diritto ed Etica Delle Tecnologie Emergenti at Università Europea di Roma, at the “Corso Maestro Protezione Dati & Data Protection Designer®” at Academy Istituto Privacy, at the Master in Internet Ecosystem at University of Pisa, at the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management at Maastricht University, at the Master of Science in Medical Informatics at FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and at the Master in Advanced Studies on the IoT at University of Geneva.
Luca Bolognini’s books in the last 15 years, as director, author or co-author: «Deontologia privacy per avvocati e investigatori privati» (privacy for lawyers and private investigators, Giuffrè, 2009); «Next Privacy» (RCS Etas, 2010); «Privacy Technologies and Policies» (chapter on IoT and 3D privacy, Springer, 2016); «Generazione Selfie» (Corriere della Sera, 2014); «Il Regolamento Privacy Europeo» (the first Italian commentary on the GDPR, Giuffrè, 2016); «La responsabilità civile nel trattamento di dati personali e per atti di cybercrime» (on personal data processing-related liability, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2018); «Codice Privacy: tutte le novità del D.Lgs. 101/2018» (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2018); «A.I. Artificial Insanity – Reflections on the resilience of human intelligence» (Rubbettino, 2018), a pamphlet about digital rights, Big Data law and impacts of Artificial Intelligence, AR/VR and IoT on human lives; «Internet of Things Security and Data Protection» (Springer, 2019), in particular with the essays “Evolution of Data Protection Norms and Their Impact on the Internet of Things“, “Voluntary Compliance Commitment Tool for European General Data Protection Regulation“, “IoT and Cloud Computing: Specific Security and Data Protection Issues“; «La rappresentanza dei diritti in materia di protezione dei dati personali, tra azioni plurisoggettive e azioni collettive» in the book “Azione di classe: la riforma italiana e le prospettive europee” (essay on privacy and data protection class actions, Giappichelli, 2020); «Responsabilità, Rischio e Danno in Sanità» (chapter on privacy and data transparency in the Italian healthcare sector, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2022). Director, with Enrico Pelino, and author of the volume «Codice della Disciplina Privacy» (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2019, 1454 pages), a complete commentary to the GDPR and all the Italian data protection and privacy laws. Director and author of the book “Privacy e libero mercato digitale” (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, May 2021), on the balance and combination between data protection and other sectoral market regulations. Author of the book «L’Arte della Privacy – Metafore sulla (non) conformità alle regole nell’era data-driven» (Rubbettino, 2022, English edition in March, 2022: «The Art of Privacy – Metaphors on (non) compliance in the data-driven era», Spanish edition in March 2022: «El Arte de la Privacidad – Metáforas sobre la (no) conformidad con las reglas en la era de los datos»). Director, with Enrico Pelino and Marco Scialdone, and author of the book «Digital Services Act e Digital Markets Act» (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2023). Some of Luca Bolognini’s open access papers: https://independent.academia.edu/LucaBolognini1
