Laura Liguori

Laura advises Italian and foreign clients on personal Privacy, Cyber Security and Data Protection, IT, Internet and Ecommerce, Artificial Intelligence and IoT.

She has focused for more than 25 years on Privacy, Cyber Security and Data Protection, Compliance, Litigation, Commercial Contracts and all legal issues concerning Internet and Ecommerce, TMT, Investigations, Digital-Media-Tech, consumer law and unfair commercial practices. Her industry focused expertise covers Advertising and Marketing, Life Sciences-Healthcare and clinical trials, Fashion and Luxury.

Laura advises clients on all the complex legal issues concerning social networks, information governance, protection of databases, data mining, big data and predictive analyses, profiling and automated decision making, biometrics, cookies, employee monitoring, whistleblowing hotlines, location based services, cross border transfers of data, data breach management cases, user generated contents, data scraping, etc.

Laura speaks regularly at seminars and conferences on internet and data protection related matters, and she is the author of several articles in law reviews, such as Data Protection Law & Policy, eHealth Law & Policy, World Data Protection Report, etc.

Laura is ranked by Chambers Europe 2025 in the TMT: Information Technology sector (Band 2) and for TMT: Data Protection (Spotlight), by The Legal 500 EMEA 2025 in both the “Data Privacy & Data Protection” (“Hall of Fame”) and the “TMT” sectors (“Leading partner”), by the Expert Guides (Legal Media Group) in both the “Information Technology” and the “Women in Business Law” categories.

Laura graduated cum laude from the Luiss Guido Carli of Rome in 1996, with a dissertation on the first Italian law on data protection and privacy.

She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Privacy Institute (an Italian data protection think tank), of The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), she is President of the ITechLaw Association, and she is vice president of the Women&Tech – Donne e tecnologie Association.

She has obtained the Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) certification and the Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) certification through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Foreign languages: English (speaking proficiency).

Laura is member of the Rome Bar Association (A-27003).