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    Marco Cappa
    ADVANT Nctm - Rome
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    Marco Cappa

    ADVANT Nctm - Rome
    Lawyer
    Counsel

    LANGUAGES

    English / Italian

    Practice Areas

    Antitrust and Competition - Corporate and Commercial - IT and Data

    Spotlight

    Artificial Intelligence - Cybersecurity

    Contacts

    T : +39 06 6784977

    marco.cappa@advant-nctm.com

    Expertise

    Marco Cappa is a lawyer with solid expertise in the practice of privacy law (with reference to the EU Regulation 679/2016, the "GDPR"), IT law, AI and corporate and commercial.

    He completed with merit a PhD with a dissertation on: "The Transatlantic evolution of the right to privacy". 

    He specialized with an LLM at the King's College of London. 

    He offered legal and regulatory consultancy for a series of law firms and ICT companies.

    Marco is research fellow of the Italian Academy of the Internet Code (2024 - 2014) for which he edited a series of scientific publications.

    He’s also been regulatory and policy consultant for Google Italy (2017-2015).

    Member of the editorial board and author of scientific articles for the Coni Sports Law Magazine (2024-2015) and former Legal Advisor of the Council of Jurisdiction of the Chamber of Deputies (2015 - 2014).

    Education

    • DPO certification UNI ISO 11697/2017, 2027 – 2023, 2023 – 2019.
    • PhD in Privacy Law - University of Naples "Parthenope" - European University of Rome with a dissertation on "The Transatlantic evolution of the right to privacy", 2014 – 2017.
    • Admitted to the Bar of Potenza, 2013
    • LLM in European Law - King's College London, 2012/2013.
    • Master in International Functions - SIOI (Italian Society for International Organization) Rome, 2011. 
    • Post-Graduate Specialization Course in Energy Law - LUISS Guido Carli, 2010.
    • Specialization Course in the Legal System of Football - LUISS Guido Carli, 2009.
    • Degree in Law - LUISS Guido Carli (with top marks), 2009.

    Publications

    • “The challenges of GDPR”
      in: Across the Universe, n. 26, 2018
    • "Gli aiuti di stato e il calcio”
      in: Rivista di Diritto Sportivo del CONI, fasc. II/2015, 2015
    • “Commento all’art. 66-ter”
      in: I nuovi diritti dei consumatori. Commentario al D.Lgs. n. 21/2014, A.M. Gambino e Gilberto Nava, Giappichelli Edition, 2014

     

     

    Articles

    Italian Data Protection Authority approves Code of Conduct on Telemarketing: major novelties and practical implications
    Pursuant to Article 40 of the GDPR, various trade and consumer associations drafted a Code of Conduct on Telemarketing and Telesales. The Code, approved by the Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante”)…
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    The new adequacy decision to simplify data transfers to the US
    With the new adequacy decision of the European Commission, the transfer of personal data to the US will soon undergo significant and important developments. As in the best Netflix series, we start with…
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    Cybersecurity in Italy
    Threats and actors in the field Knowing the threats to cybersecurity. Preventing attacks and incidents. Taking action. A guide for businesses in five contributions on Italian cybersecurity legislation. …
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    The NIS Directive and the obligations of essential services operators and digital services providers
    This fourth contribution on Italian cybersecurity legislation deals with the obligations imposed by the NIS Directive on security of network and information systems upon essential services operators and di…
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    Memorandum on the Chinese GDPR – The new “Personal Information Protection Law”. Implications and consequences
    Introduction The recent legislative activity in the People’s Republic of China regarding the protection of personal data has attracted the attention not only of operators in the sector but also of the d…
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    Happy Birthday, GDPR!
    Regulation (EU) 2016/679, also called “General Data Protection Regulation” (the “GDPR”), turns three. The GDPR indeed came into force on 25 May 2018, becoming the global benchmark for personal data prot…
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    The so-called "Superbonus" introduced by the Relaunch Decree
    The purpose of this document is to briefly analyse the changes introduced by the Decree on Tax deductions for certain categories of entities implementing restructuring fulfilling specific energy efficiency…
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