Luca Bolognini

Practice Areas

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, 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, Nairobi and Riyadh and partner law firms in more than 50 other countries. Leading Individual Data Privacy and Data Protection The Legal 500 (Italy) 2020-2021-2022. Recommended Lawyer The Legal 500 EMEA 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2020 – 2021 – 2022. Chambers Europe Ranked Lawyer 2022-2023. 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) 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).

Professional Memberships

Luca 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 of 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 in clinical research, open innovation and market access in the digital era at the Università Campus BioMedico di Roma 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.

Publications

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, 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»).

Some of Luca Bolognini’s open access papers: https://independent.academia.edu/LucaBolognini1