Nicola Fabiano

Nicola Fabiano is a lawyer at Studio Legale Fabiano - of Counsel at Panetta & Associati (Rome).

He is specialized in civil law and digital law (new technologies, privacy and ICT law).

He deals with privacy, ICT and data security issues at Italian and International level. He is also studying and writing about PETs, Privacy by Design and Privacy by Default and he was recognised by the Commissioner of Ontario Dr. Ann Cavoukian "Privacy by Design Ambassador" due to his interest and studies.

He is the Director of the CINFOR (Centro per l’Informatica e l’Innovazione Forense – Centre for informatics and forensic innovation), that is a Body of the Bar Association of Foggia and he also is the IT person in charge at the Bar Council of Foggia.

He is member of IAPP (Iinternationa Association of Privacy Professionals).

He is member of the ENISA Awareness Raising Community and enrolled in the official ENISA CEI (Call for Expressions of Interest) List of “Experts for identifying emerging and future risks posed by new ICTs”, since 2009.
He is Sector Director of the Italian Institute for Privacy (IIP-Istituto Italiano Privacy), Member of AIPSI (Associazione Italiana Professionisti Sicurezza Informatica) - ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) Italian chapter.

He is often speaker in meetings and conferences.

He worked as external expert and advisor for ADICONSUM (Italian consumer association), as part of the Italian node of the European Safer Internet Programme, for the “EAST - Easy to Stop-it” project, running from January 2007 to December 2008 and for the next project “EAST2 - Easy to Stop-it” project, running from January 2009 to December 2010; he was member, on behalf of the Italian node, of the European social networking task force called from the European Commission, 2008 - 2010, participating in the activities till the output of the principles carried out on 10.2.2009. He also worked as external expert and advisor for ADICONSUM for the European project "Youth Protection Roundtable" (YPRT).