Internet e sicurezza online: Italia (2026)
Italy regulates online content and safety through the directly applicable EU Digital Services Act, with AGCOM designated as the national Digital Services Coordinator and empowered to receive complaints, appoint trusted flaggers and impose DSA fines (up to 6% of global turnover). On top of the DSA, Italy has layered national rules — including a mandatory double-blind age-verification regime for adult/age-restricted platforms (fully applicable from 12 November 2025) and the AGCOM-run 'Piracy Shield' live-blocking system. The EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation (2021/784) also applies directly.
Struttura primaria
EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065) in force since 17 Feb 2024, implemented nationally by Decree-Law No. 123/2023 (converted into Law No. 159/2023, the 'Caivano Decree') designating AGCOM as Italy's Digital Services Coordinator; complemented by AGCOM Resolution No. 96/25/CONS on age verification and Law No. 93/2023 (Piracy Shield) on live-content blocking.
Punti chiave
DSA + national coordinator (AGCOM)
Article 15 of Decree-Law 123/2023 (converted by Law 159/2023) designates AGCOM as Italy's Digital Services Coordinator under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065; a dedicated DSC office was set up within AGCOM and the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) and Garante Privacy are the cooperating competent authorities. AGCOM has adopted a complaints-handling regulation under Article 53 DSA and appointed Italy's first trusted flagger in January 2025.
Mandatory age verification (Caivano Decree)
AGCOM Resolution No. 96/25/CONS, implementing Article 13-bis of Decree-Law 123/2023, requires sites and video-sharing platforms serving adult/restricted content accessible from Italy to run a certified 'double-blind' two-step age-verification system (identity provider never sees the destination; the platform only receives an anonymous proof-of-age token). Obligations apply from 12 November 2025, with fines from €10,000 up to €250,000; AGCOM published a list of 48 covered platforms on 31 October 2025 and has stated the rules apply extraterritorially.
Piracy Shield (Law 93/2023)
Under Law No. 93/2023, AGCOM operates the 'Piracy Shield' platform (live since February 2024) which lets rights-holders flag infringing live streams and compels ISPs, DNS resolvers and VPN providers to block the identified domains/IPs within 30 minutes. By mid-2026 over 122,000 domains/IPs had been blacklisted; in early 2026 AGCOM imposed a record €14.2 million fine on Cloudflare for failing to block via its 1.1.1.1 resolver (currently under appeal).
Platform liability regime
Platform liability is governed by the DSA's tiered duties (hosting providers, online platforms, VLOPs) with conditional liability exemptions (Articles 4-6 DSA, replacing the e-Commerce Directive safe harbours). Italy has confirmed the maximum DSA sanctions (6% of global turnover for substantive breaches, 1% for information failures, 5% periodic penalty payments) via Decree-Law 123/2023.
Terrorist content online
EU Regulation 2021/784 (TCO) applies directly since 7 June 2022 — hosting service providers must remove flagged terrorist content within one hour of a competent authority's removal order, under threat of fines up to 4% of global turnover. The Commission opened infringement action against Italy (among 22 Member States) in 2023 for incomplete designation/notification of the national competent authority under the TCO.
EU-wide age verification app
In parallel with its national regime, Italy is participating in the European Commission's EU age-verification mini-wallet / app, to be rolled out via national digital-identity wallets by end-2026 using zero-knowledge proofs so that platforms only receive a yes/no on whether a user is above the required age.
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