Justice, Report's alarm: 'Access to magistrates' PCs without permission'. Nordio: "Surreal accusations"

The communiqué explicitly mentions the possibility of 'video surveillance of magistrates' through this IT tool.

Report states that the case was allegedly raised by a leading Italian prosecutor's office in 2024, but was subsequently hushed up by ministerial leaders. The decision, it says, was made at the request of the Prime Minister's Office, according to a ministerial executive quoted in the statement.

Report also reported that the Ministry had provided reassurances to the Prosecutor's Office. However, the programme claims that these assurances would not correspond to the truth, and that the episode aired on Rai3 would prove this through exclusive documents and testimonies.

According to a note by Minister Nordio, these are 'surreal accusations; the infrastructure used in the judicial offices is the same PC management and security system already in operation since 2019, as the ministers who preceded me can certainly confirm. It does not allow surveillance of magistrates' activities, it does not read content, it does not record keystrokes or screens, it does not activate microphones/webcams. The remote control functions are not active nor have they ever been activated'.

The minister emphasises that there is 'no big brother'. "In any case, their possible use would require a request from the user and his explicit confirmation: it could not therefore take place without his knowledge. Every intervention would in any case be traced in the systems,' he continues. 'The news spread, without due investigation, by Sigfrido Ranucci via Facebook, which certainly has a purpose: to arouse social alarm in order to misguide public opinion, is disconcerting. The security of the systems protects, not conditions, the work of the magistrates'.