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Interception by means of an electronic sensor: the ups and downs of Legislative Decree n. 216/2017
- Friday 11 May 2018
- Cyber security, Digital Forensics, Diritto Penale
More than four months from the launch of the decree with which the Government disciplined the interceptions of communications between the present by inserting an electronic sensor on a portable electronic device, the failure to issue a timely enacting technical regulation, entrusted to - ex art. ...
Legal status of cryptocurrencies: approaches to regulation and relating issues
- Tuesday 08 May 2018
- Financial assets, Finanza
In a recent ruling, the Italian Tax Authority clarifies that Bitcoins (and more in general cryptocurrencies) are to be considered foreign currencies. As it happens to anything relating to cryptocurrencies, such clarification gave rise to a significant interest and was shared by most media. ...
Blockchain e GDPR, prove di dialogo tra due trending topic del momento
- Friday 04 May 2018
- Information Tecnnology, Novità legislative, Privacy
Negli ultimi mesi, una sempre maggiore curiosità è sorta intorno alla tecnologia blockchain; parallelamente, ha suscitato un altissimo interesse la ormai prossima entrata in vigore del Regolamento Europeo 679/2016 (in seguito: GDPR). Le considerazioni che seguono vogliono ...
Smart contract e patologia contrattuale: l’ipotesi della nullità.
- Friday 27 April 2018
- Diritto Civile, Diritto Commerciale e Contratti
Presupporre che un contratto sia intelligente ed autonomo, ossia che sia capace di autoeseguirsi in funzione delle istruzioni che sono state fornite dalle parti contraenti al codice informatico che lo rappresenta, può avere un senso solo nella parte fisiologica oppure anche in quella patologica...
Crime of libel committed through Facebook requires prior verification of the IP address
- Tuesday 24 April 2018
- Digital Crime
With its recent ruling n. 5352 of February 5th 2018, the Fifth Chamber of the Italian Supreme Court (hereinafter: S.C.) stated a principle according to which libel crimes committed on-line – ex art. 595, co.3 of the Italian Criminal Code – cannot be considered to be charged in the ...