Privacy Guarantor, Ghiglia: 'Never asked Fanizza for offences'. Report audio: 'College knew about the investigation'

The appointment of Mr. Fanizza, a magistrate at the Lazio Regional Administrative Court and PhD in public economic law, who has held teaching positions at the University of Bari for many years, had been announced by the Guarantor recently, on 10 October. He was to remain in office until the end of the college's term of office on 29 July 2027. Fanizza has not publicly justified his resignation, but it is clear that the heated climate of recent weeks has become red-hot after the employees' clear stance.

The controversy over the Guarantor arose from Report's accusations of the current members of contiguity with politics and conflicts of interest. First in the crosshairs was Agostino Ghiglia, for his relations with FdI, which Report linked to the fine imposed by the Guarantor on the programme after airing an audio between former minister Gennaro Sangiuliano and his wife. Then also Guido Scorza, indicated by M5S, for his role as a former partner in the E-Lex law firm, which he founded in 2011. About a dozen public and private companies, assisted by the firm, are said to be affected by measures pending before the Authority. President Pasquale Stanzione also ended up in the enquiry of the Rai3 programme, in particular for his relations with the Sica family of Sangiuliano's lawyers, but also with the Link Campus University. More generally, the entire management ended up under indictment for expenses deemed unjustified.

"The College of the Guarantor of Privacy has mandated Fanizza to carry out an internal investigation to uncover any responsibility for the data leak, but obviously through lawful and legal activities, so there is no contradiction. Report wants to force the truth'. This is how Agostino Ghiglia, a member of the panel, responded to Ansa on the dissemination of the former secretary's audio. So why did he resign? "He resigned because he made a very serious mistake by sending a letter with requests of which the college was unaware, and which were illicit because they violated the very privacy that the authority protects

"However, as we also wrote in our communiqué, it is true that Fanizza had a mandate, that of understanding whether there had been a possible infiltration of confidential data and communications, but to be carried out as permitted by law," Ghiglia added. "We only learnt of the letter sent by the secretary to the employees during the meeting, not a moment before, and in any case, if we had been aware of it, we would have prevented it because we would never have allowed an illicit activity, against anyone, but even less so, and above all, I would like to say, against employees who enjoy the utmost trust on our part. So what was the source of the perplexity of the authority's staff? ' 'But it's clear that if I don't know something and I receive a letter with unlawful demands, not knowing that the college was unaware, I may suspect that it was not. In short, it's a surreal affair'. Yet there are still those who call for your resignation. ''I have no reason to resign, that part of politics that claims independence and then wants us to resign is absolutely contradictory, if we are independent we remain so. We cannot resign under pressure from Report, because a programme has targeted us. It is clear that we will protect ourselves in the appropriate fora but without clamour. The authority is a serious institution and must defend itself against these surreal, or rather mystified, reports, because there is a piece of truth that is then twisted. I have written three books on igital education and this is called truth bending, which is a way of bending reality to one's own ends