Don't think so, this the "Garante della Privacy", two different institutions.

Different things.

AGCOM (Autorità per le Garanzie nelle COMunicazioni - authority for integrity in communications) is what supports the anti-piracy efforts that are fighting Cloudflare (as well as ensuring competition in telecom markets etc etc).

GPDP (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali - guarantor for the protection of personal data) is the data privacy regulator, tasked with ensuring that people's right to privacy is respected in a world of databases.

No these are two different Italian agencies.

From what I gather, corruption in this case means that civil servants of the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali got business class travel when they should have flown economy class because the trip was under five hours (the established cut-off for upgrading to business class), and that they stayed in hotels that were better than the ones authorized for civil servants. There's also something about the head of the Garante changing the terms of his lease in Rome on an apartment that is directly adjacent to an AirB&B owned by his daughter, but my financial Italian's not up to understanding the full details. I think this is less the "point out Grok's deepfake" kind of corruption and more the "some civil servants think they're entitled to live better on the taxpayer's dime than other civil servants do."

> Government agency focused on citizen privacy suddenly hit by a corruption probe with no accusations or specifics.

I think you underestimate the amount of bureaucracy and corruption in Italian institutions.