Foreign correspondents

Breach of Confidence: Your “Friends” Can’t Protect You

by Naomi Metcalfe June 20, 2013
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This is the republishing of an article first appeared on the IP Osgoode Law blog as part of a cross-posting agreement   As social media becomes increasingly prolific, the perils of its use are becoming increasingly apparent. Yet another case has highlighted that the information you place in the online sphere is liable to harm you [...]


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Sei libero, ma dimmi chi sei

by Carlo Melzi d'Eril - Giulio Enea Vigevani June 19, 2013
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«Controllo del web» è espressione che stona, anche se a pronunciarla è una persona la cui passione per le libertà non è in dubbio. Così, quando Laura Boldrini ritiene sia necessario porsi tale «delicatissima questione», finisce per rimettere in discussione un postulato antico della civiltà liberale: gli scritti non si controllano preventivamente, semmai se illeciti [...]


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Analyses

The European Digital Agenda has gone…now go ahead!

by Raffaele Barberio June 18, 2013
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This is the reposting of a comment by Raffaele Barberio first published on Key4biz The speech given on 30 May by Neelie Kroes to the European Parliament marks an important step for the future of the European Digital Agenda. And the message that emerges is that the Digital Agenda we have known until now is, [...]


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Interviews

Medialaws meets startup: UBER

by Marco Bellezza June 17, 2013
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We continue our travel on startup ecosystem in Italy. Today we interview Benedetta Arese Lucini Italian country manager of the US-based startup UBER. 1.       Hi Benedetta.  How it is born the idea of  UBER? How does UBER work? UBER was born out of the need of the two co-founders to find a cab when they were [...]


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News

Italian MPs ask Government to seek clarifications on Prism

by Marco Bellezza June 13, 2013
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Yesterday some members of the Italian parliament belonging to 5 Stars Movement filed a written question addressed to the Italian government to seek clarification in connection with the data of Italian citizens possibly treated through Prism. After more than a week from the burst of the scandal Italian government, differently than other governments around the [...]


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Foreign correspondents

Prism hysteria

by Nikita Melashchenko June 13, 2013
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In the beginning of June, 2013 The Washington Post and The Guardian have published articles about PRISM secret surveillance program. Allegedly, FBI along with NSA are gathering audio and video files, photos, e-correspondence, documents as well as web logs. According to information provided by media special services have direct access to servers of 9 major [...]


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Interviews

Il PRISM visto dall’Europa

by Oreste Pollicino June 12, 2013
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Il presente contributo costituisce un estratto dell’intervista realizzata al Prof. Pollicino dal blog Wired e pubblicata nella sezione “Diritti al futuro” a cura dello Studio Legale Portolano Cavallo. Il testo integrale può essere consultato accedendo al link La questione PRISM pone interrogativi seri sul rapporto tra sicurezza pubblica e riservatezza dei cittadini. Esiste un punto [...]


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NSA/Verizon: una breve analisi giuridica dell’order della FIS Court

by Monica Senor June 11, 2013
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“What you’ve got is two programs that were originally authorized by Congress, have been repeatedly authorized by Congress, bipartisan majorities have approved them, Congress is continually briefed on how these are conducted . . . and federal judges are overseeing the entire program throughout”: così Barak Obama, a difesa del Governo americano nello scandalo NSA/Verizon. [...]


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