The news of the ‘meta-mega-fine’ of over one billion euros imposed on the social networking platform by the Irish Data Protection Authority highlights once again the fundamental flaw in the political use of personal data protection rules and the inconsistency of the authorities responsible for enforcing them by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian on Strategikon – an Italian Tech Blog Continue reading “The “Meta-Mega-Fine” and the understandable inconsistency of the Data Protection Commissioners”
Meta and the rights’commodification problem
The Social Network giant, after dropping NFT, is facing judicial actions in the Netherlands and Italy regarding privacy issues. At stake are Big Tech industrial model and the idea that rights are good that can be traded by Andrea Monti – initially published in Italian by Wired.it Continue reading “Meta and the rights’commodification problem”
Meta and VAT. It is about the time to decide if personal data are of economic value
It is twenty years too late for someone to realise that taxes should be paid on transactions based on data. But the real issues are the ownership of (or on) information and the urgency to stop believing in ‘digital’ and ‘cyberspace’ by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Strategikon – an Italian Tech blog. Continue reading “Meta and VAT. It is about the time to decide if personal data are of economic value”
Are US Hunt Forward operations the Trojan horse for spying on EU networks?
On 15th January, the French newspaper Le Monde published an article highlighting the French confusion about the “Hunt Forward Operation” (HFO), i.e. the active search (and therefore “hunt”) for persons or software that have infiltrated a network to commit illegal actions or “cause damage”. Initially launched in Ukraine in early 2022 to counter hostile actions attributed to Russia, HFOs have also been carried out in EU countries such as Lithuania and Croatia by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian on Strategikon – an Italian Tech blog. Continue reading “Are US Hunt Forward operations the Trojan horse for spying on EU networks?”
State-sponsored offensive security is not yet operative, still it is already at stake?
The decree on the State-retaliation to cyber attacks is now a law, but its criticalities have not been resolved during the conversion phase. A ruling from the Supreme Court indirectly highlights them and makes it urgent that the government remedy this paradoxical situation. The analysis by Andrea Monti, adjunct professor of Digital Law in the Digital Marketing degree course at the University of Chieti-Pescara – Initially pubished in Italian by Formiche.net