The article is quite misleading.

Agcom isn't the privacy watchdog, albeit their responsibilities overlap in some areas.

Also, our actual privacy watchdog (garante per la privacy) has been under the lenses for corruption for quite some time.

One of it's most important managers was on one side expected to fight for Italians privacy, on the other hand his own law consulting firm was defending US big tech interests.

He was caught bragging for being one of the first people in the world to receive the latest meta ray bans before they even got released, a very controversial device for privacy (and yes, he also defends Meta).