As much as Americans like to think everything is about America, I doubt this is somehow connected. These goverment-appointed officials, like the Secretary General of the Privacy Watchdog, tend to be incompetent and corrupt buffoons.

Just two months ago, the previous Secretary General was forced to resign[1] after he tried to spy on his own employees in a botched attempt to find a whistle-blower that had exposed his corruption. He couldn't get away with it only because the head of IT (who he ordered to carry out the actual spying) happened to be the son-in-law of the President of the Republic, which is practically the last remaining institution with some integrity in the political landscape.

To understand the magnitude of the incompetence of that fool, just know that he had asked IT to retrieve employees access logs and all emails for the past 25 years (hundreds of TB of data) and put them on a DVD so he could check them out [2].

[1]: https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2025/11/20/scosson...

[2]: https://www.key4biz.it/garante-privacy-capo-it-a-segretario-...