Overview
- Angelo Fanizza resigned as secretary general of the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, with the authority confirming his departure and thanking him without giving reasons.
- A confidential memo dated 4 November and attributed to Fanizza ordered extraction and preservation of employees’ emails, VPN access data, shared folders and other logs back to 2001 to identify leakers, according to documents published by Il Fatto Quotidiano and relayed by Report.
- IT security manager Cosimo Comella refused to carry out the directive, calling it unlawful under privacy rules and the secrecy of correspondence, and his written refusal was read to staff.
- An employee assembly subsequently voted, as reported by several outlets, to request the resignation of the entire collegio, which later issued a note claiming total non‑involvement in the memo and saying it was never acted upon.
- The turmoil follows Report’s investigations into alleged conflicts of interest at the authority and a €150,000 fine imposed on Rai for a Report broadcast, with Il Fatto also reporting an attempted unauthorized server access during the leak hunt.