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Avv Luca Bolognini
Work Department
ICT Legal Consulting
Position
Founding Partner
Career
European privacy and data protection lawyer. President of the Italian Institute for Privacy and Data Valorisation (Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati), since 2008. Luca is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court, a member of the Rome Bar Association and founding partner of the law firm ICT Legal Consulting (ICTLC) 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) 2020-2021-2022-2023-2024. Recommended Lawyer The Legal 500 EMEA 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2020 – 2021 – 2022 – 2023 – 2024. Chambers Europe Ranked Lawyer 2022 – 2023 – 2024. IAPP Member, CIPP/E and TÜV Italia Certified Privacy Officer. In 2018, he has co-founded the cybersecurity firm ICT Cyber Consulting. He obtained his Law degree from the Alma Mater University of Bologna.
Luca serves as an independent Ethics and Privacy Advisor for several European research and innovation projects (Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe) and as an Expert Coach for the Executive Agency for Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) of the European Commission. Member of the PM boards of the EU H2020 projects “Privacy Flag”, “Cloudwatch 2”, “Cyberwatching”, “ANITA”, “NGIoT”, “PREVENT”, “NIoVe”, “PolicyCloud”. In 2017, he founded the “CNAC – National Center Anti-Cyberbullying”, supported by relevant Italian and international companies and law firms. He speaks Italian and English fluently and has reasonable knowledge of Spanish. 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 (including Computer Law & Security Review, Diritto Economia e Tecnologie della Privacy, Corriere della Sera, Sole 24 Ore, Il Mondo, Affari Italiani, European Voice, The Wall Street Journal).
Luca is co-founder of the Privacy Symposium International Conference in Venice. He is a member of the Experts Board of EU-IoT and co-chair of the EuroPrivacy Certification Scheme Board of Senior Experts. 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 Alma Graduate School of the University of Bologna, 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 10 years, Luca’s been in charge of teaching EU data protection law at the Master in Big Data Management of LUISS Guido Carli, at the 2nd level Master in cybersecurity, data protection and privacy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, at the 2nd level Master in Labour Law at the Unimercatorum, at the 2nd Level Master in Data Protection Officer at Politecnico di Milano, at the 1st level Master in Professionisti della digitalizzazione e della privacy at the University Unitelma Sapienza, at the 1st level Master in Intelligenza Artificiale, Diritto ed Etica Delle Tecnologie Emergenti at the Università Europea di Roma, at the “Corso Maestro Protezione Dati & Data Protection Designer®” at the Academy Istituto Italiano Privacy, at the Master in Internet Ecosystem at the 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 and at the Master in Advanced Studies on the IoT at the University of Geneva.
Luca Bolognini’s books in the last 15 years, as editor, 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 health 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. Editor and author of the book “Privacy e libero mercato digitale” (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2021), on the balance and interaction 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: «The Art of Privacy – Metaphors on (non) compliance in the data-driven era», Spanish edition: «El Arte de la Privacidad – Metáforas sobre la (no) conformidad con las reglas en la era de los datos»). Author of the book «Diritto Dipinto – L’arte legale nel “tutto digitale”» (Rubbettino, April 2023).
Some of Luca Bolognini’s open access papers: https://independent.academia.edu/LucaBolognini1
Languages
He speaks Italian and English fluently and has good knowledge of Spanish.
Memberships
Member of the Rome Bar Association
Education
Law degree from the Alma Mater University of Bologna.
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Industry focus: TMT
ICT Legal Consulting houses a specialised team of data protection and cybersecurity experts who routinely assist international institutions and companies across different sectors. The team stands out in the areas of IT contracts, cloud, AI, and regulatory issues related to telecommunications and electronic communications, where Paolo Balboni is the key contact. Luca Bolognini is noted for his expertise in data protection, data transfers and IT, while Floriana Francesconi routinely advises clients in the engineering, services and pharmaceutical sectors on data protection compliance and risk assessments.
Italy > Data privacy and data protection
(Leading partners)With one of the largest privacy and data protection practices in the EU, ICT Legal Consulting advises global brands across the fashion, automotive, and banking and finance sectors. The practice is headed by Paolo Balboni, who routinely serves as a data protection officer for multinationals; practice area authority Luca Bolognini; and Floriana Francesconi, a specialist in matters involving engineering, services and pharmaceuticals. Other key names include Nicola Franchetto, who advises on IT contracts, cloud computing and e-marketing; Vito Michele Pavese, who assists clients with European and national data protection compliance; and Francesca Tugnoli, who draws on a background in administrative crime liability.
Lawyer Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection Italy
- Leading partners Italy > Data privacy and data protection
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