Strictly private: corporate investigations in Italy

Over the past couple of decades, European countries have brought in increasingly strict privacy rules and regulations. Italy’s regime is complex and, in many respects, draconian, says Marianna Vintiadis of Kroll.

Marianna Vintiadis (+39 02 86 99 80 88, mvintiadis@ kroll.com) is Kroll’s country manager for Italy and Greece.

The feature of Italy’s privacy laws that often worries corporate executives the most is the attribution of criminal liability for a breach. In one widely publicised case, three Google directors were convicted in 2010 of breach of privacy. The New York Times reported on 24 February 2010, “In Milan, Judge Oscar Magi sentenced the Google executives in absentia to six-month suspended sentences for violation of privacy.