Guido Scorza
Componente del Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
Lawyer, journalist, and adjunct professor of new technology law and privacy.
He is currently a member of the Board of the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali). He is a former cassation lawyer and founding partner of the E-Lex Law Firm.
He was responsible for national and European legal affairs for the digital transformation team, legal advisor to the Minister for Innovation, deputy representative of the Italian government at the Government Advisory Board of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), and member of the policy subgroup of the ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence Regulation of the Council of Europe.
He has always been involved in law and new technologies, both as a lawyer and in his public positions. He teaches this subject at various Italian universities, including Roma Tre University, where he is responsible for the module on "E-Privacy and Telco" in the Master's program "Data Protection Officer and Privacy Expert." He also teaches the course "Protection of Personal Data and Safeguarding Fundamental Freedoms - Privacy Legal Clinic." He teaches "Communication and Digital Commerce Law" at UNINT University in Rome, and he is responsible for the module on computer contracts in the Master's program in Legal Informatics and New Technologies at the University of Bologna.
He is the author of several books, including "Artificial Intelligence: Its Impact on Our Lives, Rights, and Freedoms" with Alessandro Longo (Mondadori), "Privacy Explained to Young People (and Their Parents)" with Michela Massimi (Mondadori), "Trials of the Future" (Egea), and "Internet, Our Rights" with Anna Masera (Laterza).
