US EditionItaly's privacy watchdog, scourge of US big tech, hit by corruption probe
Italian prosecutors investigate alleged corruption and excessive spending at the Garante, the EU's leading AI data privacy regulator, involving its president and board members.
- On Jan 15, Italian finance police searched Italy's data protection authority, the Garante's Rome headquarters amid a probe into possible corruption and embezzlement, Reuters reported.
- Rome prosecutors are investigating Pasquale Stanzione, agency president, and three other Garante board members over alleged excessive spending and possible corruption, while Stanzione repeatedly declined to say if he would step down.
- The Garante is one of the EU's most proactive regulators, frequently requesting information and imposing fines on high-tech multinationals in AI compliance cases.
- The opposition Five-Star Movement said the agency's credibility had been undermined and called for Pasquale Stanzione to resign, while Stanzione told reporters he was `absolutely serene`.
- Last week the regulator warned users and providers of AI tools, including Elon Musk's Grok, about deepfake risks, and it previously fined and briefly banned OpenAI's ChatGPT and blocked DeepSeek over privacy concerns.
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Searches by the Guardia di Finanza at the headquarters of the Guarantor of Privacy in the framework of a survey of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Rome that has investigated the president of the Authority, Pasquale Stanzione and the other members of the Authority. Peculated and corruption the crimes hypothesized. During the meeting in direct streaming of the editorial staff of Ilfattoquotidiano.it, journalist Thomas Mackinson, who has dealt wi…
The experts of the Pef group of Finance in the offices of the Data Protection Authority on behalf of the Public Prosecutor of Rome. With the president of the Authority, also investigated Guido Scorza, Agostino Ghiglia and Ginevra Cerrina Feroni
Finance police search offices of Italy's privacy authority - General News
Finance police on Thursday searched the Rome headquarters of Italy's privacy authority to obtain evidence relating to a corruption probe in which the watchdog's president, Pasquale Stanzione, and other members of the authority are under investigation, sour... (ANSA)
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