Who’s Who Legal publishes its 2020 ranking. Our Managing Partner, Rocco Panetta, is in 5 categories. In particular: Thought Leaders – Data Privacy & Protection; Global Leaders in Data Privacy & Protection, Data Security e Telecoms & Media, and National Leaders – Data.

Panetta & Associati worked alongside ANCIC – Associazione Nazionale delle Imprese di Informazione Commerciale – in the rewriting of the ‘Code of conduct for business information’. The advent of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (‘GDPR’) and the approval of the Guidelines 1/2019 on Codes of Conduct and Monitoring Bodies under Regulation 2016/679 by the European Data Protection Board made it necessary to completely revise the old text of such code (which was an annex to the Italian Privacy Code, Legislative Decree no. 196/2003).

A new paper by Rocco Panetta and Federico Sartore has been published on IRIE (the International Review of Information Ethics). The paper analyzes the legal aspects of networked and robotic toys in a data protection perspective. (Link)

During the last Legalcommunity IP&TMT Awards, Rocco Panetta has been awarded as Privacy Lawyer of the Year 2019.

Lorenzo Cristofaro has been appointed Partner of Panetta & Associati
Lorenzo Cristofaro has matured a solid experience, assisting important Italian companies and international undertakings with regards to challenging issues in the data protection field, such as artificial intelligence, biometrics, e-health, marketing and profiling, e-commerce, defensive investigation, big data and e-government.
A professional of fundamental importance for the Firm growth, he is also involved in a number of H2020 projects, dealing with innovative subjects such as distributed ledger technologies.

Marco Lauricella, Panetta & Associati’s Lawyer since 2012, has been appointed Counsel.
Marco assists several Italian and foreign companies in structuring profiling and direct marketing processes, as well as in the development of workplace technologies and new networks, platforms and services. He has studied and worked on the implementation of data protection governance models; as an expert in regulatory litigation, he has defended and assisted several companies before the independent judicial and administrative authorities.