Vincenzo ZENO-ZENCOVICH is full professor of comparative law since 1990 and now retired. He has taught in the Universities of Genoa, Sassari and Roma Tre and has been engaged, since the Council of Europe Convention no. 108, in issues concerning data protection. He has authored several handbooks and nearly 100 articles on the EU and Italian data protection legislation and case law. He is is one of the editors of the periodical "Il diritto dell'informazione e dell'informatica", the leading Italian review on the topics of ICT law.