The Snowden revelations delineated new frontiers in the world of intelligence and cyber-security. This session will analyse the so-called Datagate Affair (NSA scandal) and the recent happenings in K...

The protection of sources is one of the foundations of a journalist’s work. Not surprisingly, it is the law itself that establishes a legal protection so that the journalist is allowed not to disc...

The ENAC Regulation on drones, in its latest draft, regulates "microdrones" i.e. drones with take-off weight of no more than 300 grams, with protection for the rotors and a maximum speed not exceedi...

Information warfare, drone warfare, new electronic military and geopolitical equilibria: fantasy and reality. The issues of electronic warfare between nations, the use of drones for military action...

Today we live in a world based on data: information is key to cultural, economic and social processes. The growth of digital information and our increased ability to access it have triggered a chang...

Do satire and online parody have different limits than traditional newspapers? To what point do they exclude defamation? Does online defamation have a distinguished legal treatment, and does the "ri...

In this workshop, the necessary measures to ensure the privacy of sources and the confidentiality of gathered information, reviewing all relevant aspects involved in the reporting process with parti...

In January 2016, the Italian Council of Ministers approved the preliminary draft of the decree on access to data and documents of public administrations, in accordance with the Public Administration...

Every aspect of our private and public daily life is now highly computerized. All world economies use the same basic infrastructure, the same software, hardware and standards, with billions of conne...

Computerized sensors and electronic interceptions: how they work technically and what are the legal limits for their use, the related national and international framework, draft legislation and mai...