In 2023, he was tasked by the European Commission-Directorate General for Research and Innovation to draft the Guidance Framework on Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment and AI in the context of ethics review and the role of ethics in assessing the fundamental rights implications of AI research.

Since 2016, he has been involved in several international initiatives on AI regulation. From 2016 to 2022, he served as a scientific expert for the Council of Europe's Convention 108 Advisory Committee and authored the Report on Artificial Intelligence (2019) and the drafting of the Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection (2019) and the Guidelines on Personal Data in a World of Big Data (2017), both adopted by the Committee. As a scientific expert appointed by the Council of Europe - Ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI), he authored the preliminary study for the future framework convention on AI (Analysis of the International legally binding instruments, CAHAI(2020)08-fin, 2020) and represented the Convention 108 Consultative Committee in the CAHAI.

Since 2022, he has been advising UNDP on capacity building initiatives on the use of Human Rights Impact Assessment methodologies in AI, in the Europe and Central Asia (ECIS) region and in Türkiye. He also advised the Brazilian Federal Senate on the future Brazilian regulation on AI (PL 2.338), and in 2023 he was asked by the European Commission's Ethics and Research Integrity Sector to define the future guidance framework for Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment in AI research.

Over the years, he has also advised several organisations on data protection regulation, including the United Nations, the European Commission, the European Data Protection Board, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights and the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM). He was a member of expert committees appointed by national governments to draft new data protection laws in Italy (2018) and the Dominican Republic (2019-20).

He has participated and is currently participating in several EU-funded research projects on digital society and law, and has held visiting positions at several universities, including the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Nanjing - NUITS, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universidad de Murcia, the Center for Technology and Society at FGV Direito. In 2013 and 2014, he joined the University of Oxford as a visiting researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, working on privacy and big data, and in 2020-21 he was a member of the Rethinking Data Regulation Working Group at the Ada Lovelace Institute. He is also an affiliate of the European Public Law Organisation - Institute for Privacy Law, Data Protection and Technology in Athens and the Center for AI and Digital Policy in Washington.

His latest book is Beyond Data. Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI (Springer-Asser, 2022).