Italy's Rome court rules Netflix price hikes illegal
→Netflix billing teams must process refund claims from about 500 Italian subscribers
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Italy's competition authority penalises Revolut €11.5m for misleading investment claims
→Italy's competition authority fined several Revolut group companies a total of €11.5 million, including a €5 million penalty on Revolut Securities Europe UAB and Revolut Group Holdings for failing to give clear investment information and for aggressive account-management practices.
Italy's defence ministry denies use of Sicily airbase to US planes carrying weapons
→Sigonella base commanders cannot accept armed US flights without prior parliamentary approval
Cloudflare appeals Italy's Piracy Shield fine
→Cloudflare appealed a €14.2 million fine from Italy's communications regulator AGCOM after refusing to disable DNS resolution and traffic routing for domains and IP addresses on its 1.1.1.1 public DNS service.
Sicily revokes Mondello beach concession held by Italo Belga
→Sicily revoked the century-long concession held by Italo Belga for Mondello beach after citing a risk of Cosa Nostra infiltration into subcontractor GM Edil.
Italy authorizes naval blockades on migrant ships
→Italy approved a migration bill authorizing temporary naval blockades that ban crossings into Italian waters for up to 30 days (extendable to six months) and allow transferring intercepted migrants to third countries with specific agreements.
Italy orders Meta to suspend WhatsApp chatbot ban policy
→Italy ordered Meta to suspend its WhatsApp policy banning rival AI chatbots, citing anti-competitive risks. The European Commission is also investigating.
Italy fines Ryanair over €255 million for abusing dominant market position
→Italy fined Ryanair €255 million for abusing dominance by restricting travel agency bookings from 2023 to 2025. Ryanair will appeal.
Italy adds femicide to criminal code
→Italy's parliament added femicide — the deliberate killing of women and girls because of their gender — to the criminal code, with life imprisonment as the prescribed punishment.