“Never told.” A day after the resignation of the Secretary General of the Guarantee for the Protection of Personal Data Angelo Fanizza, the Board reiterated that it was not involved in the egregious and illegal request of a former manager to access all communications of 200 employees of the Authority, which violated many privacy rules. The task assigned to him was simply to verify “possible information leaks”, not to sift through employees’ personal lives for moles who provided the Report with confidential documents and conversations.
None of the members of the College asked to resign by the left due to alleged conflicts of interest and inappropriate relations with politics – president Pasquale Stanzione, expressions of the Democratic Party, Agostino Ghiglia (Fdi), Ginevra Cerrina Feroni (Lega) and Guido Scorza (M5s) were aware of the correspondence of last November 4-5 – two days after the first episode of the Report – between Fanizza and IT systems manager Cosimo Comella (already published on Thursday evening from Report, Post and Wired) because “transmitted via a secret protocol that guarantees the accessibility of the communication exclusively to the sender and recipient” and was never “made known to members of the Council” until, apparently, just yesterday, when it was rejected due to its “disproportionate and illicit” nature.
But just a week later, when the letter was waved in front of rioting employees on Thursday night, the college had to distance itself from the letter. Once again, it’s Ranucci’s broadcast – thanks to a regular mole – that has an exclusive preview of the backstory and documents so secret that not even the Underwriters are aware of them. Comella’s refusal to reject a request that would have exposed the office to various profiles of irregularities was valid, the choice to read it on Thursday in front of the workers’ assembly was questionable, with the IT manager lecturing the assembly like a popular leader asking for (and getting) the chief expert judge who arrived from TAR Lazio in October, chosen by Stanzione.
Some people argue that Comella is also the son-in-law of Republican President Sergio Mattarella (he married his daughter Laura), so there is no longer a chance of dealing with this issue. For Quirinale, this is another case after the affair of councilor Francesco Saverio Garofani, who uttered several inappropriate sentences against the center-right and prime minister Giorgia Meloni at dinner. Others in Underwriters stated that – in the event of a leak – cybersecurity managers have a responsibility, although that responsibility has not yet been formalized.
In recent weeks, the Report has reconstructed conversations between Ghiglia and Giorgia Meloni from 2021, violating the confidentiality of the parliamentarian’s conversations, which are protected by the Constitution, when the current prime minister opposed Mario Draghi’s government.
The former AN senator himself may have been followed and eventually paparazzied by hidden cameras when he entered the Fratelli d’Italia headquarters last October 22, to visit Italo Bocchino to read a book, but also the manager of the Fdi organization Arianna Meloni. But weeks before, the Report had anticipated an investigation (“we will tell you who the Privacy Guarantor is”) regarding the mutual interests between members of the Authority and Gennaro Sangiuliano, anticipating a message sent by the former Minister of Culture to Ghiglia requesting an exemplary punishment for the Report after the publication of a telephone call between him and his wife, illegally recorded by former ministry consultant Maria Rosaria Boccia. Reports attempted to attribute Ghiglia to the political will to vote for the 150 thousand euro fine in the broadcast, although his vote was irrelevant. Guarantor’s negative verdict was anticipated by Daily Fact several days before Ghiglia entered via della Scrofa. Anyone who knew that Ghiglia was going there read the message left to his collaborators. Who violates the Guarantor’s privacy to carry out assistance Reports? A judicial investigation will be required.
“If the board doesn’t know what’s going on inside Guarantor, it’s worth noting that the board has no control over the office”, Ranucci boasted last night on La7, which will feature CGIL representative Alessandro Bartolozzi, one of Report’s privileged sources, speaking on Report tomorrow. For now, the decision passes to the new Secretary General Luigi Montuori, who was appointed by the University yesterday afternoon.
