ENI & GPDP

Today I make public a decision that should never have been taken.

After 24 years fighting to defend my name, my honor, and my professional reputation, I submitted a comprehensive complaint to Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali against Eni supported by robust documentary evidence, a detailed timeline, successive submissions, new facts, and even an autonomous complaint against the company’s Data Protection Officer (DPO).

Since 2017, Eni has published an institutional document containing false information regarding the reasons for my dismissal from AGIP Brazil in 2001 — information that does not appear in the official minutes of the shareholders’ meeting and that remains publicly available, causing ongoing damage to my honor and professional life.

Despite all this, Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali decided to close the procedure without opening an investigation, without examining the merits of the case and without verifying the accuracy of the contested data.

This decision is not merely legally weak.

It is institutionally grave.

The Authority chose not to apply fundamental principles of the GDPR, including:
✔️ the accuracy of personal data (Article 5(1)(d));
✔️ the right to rectification (Article 16);
✔️ the accountability of the controller (Article 24);
✔️ and the duty of transparency toward the data subject (Article 12).

In practice, the Authority shielded Italy’s largest company from any form of investigation.

It is impossible to ignore the broader context:

Eni is Italy’s largest company and the Italian State is its controlling shareholder.

When a Data Protection Authority decides not to investigate a case of this magnitude, involving a state-owned or politically sensitive company, one question becomes unavoidable:

📌 Who is being protected: the citizen or power?

In response to this decision, I will pursue all available avenues:
✔️ judicial, before the Tribunal of Rome (Article 78 GDPR);
✔️ European institutional, before the European Commission;
✔️ and public and media channels, because silence only benefits those who violate the law.

This fight has never been only about data.

🛑 It has always been — and continues to be — about truth, dignity, justice, and ethics.

Twenty-four years is far too long. But it is not long enough to silence me.

✅ Learn more:

1) Complaint against Eni filed with Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (GPDP) in December 2024:

2) Decision of the GPDP issued in December 2025 (Italian version)