Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons (first recorded in 1946)
SOF on Trial. The Technical and Legal Value of Battlefield Digital Forensics in Court
The book Information Security Systems has been published in late 2017 by Springer as part of the ? Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series.
Together with Prof. Luigi Mancini and dr. Agostino Panico of the Information Technology Department of the Sapienza University (Rome) I wrote the chapter titled “SOF on Trial. The Technical and Legal Value of Battlefield Digital Forensics in Court“.
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The Mistake of Giving Legal Value To Asimov Robotics’ Laws
In 1950, Isaac Asimov published Runaround, a short story where the famous Three Laws of Robotics were featured for the first time.
Today, Asimov’s Laws have become the rhetoric trick used by “artificial intelligence” and “intelligent robotics” experts.
Asimov’s Law are a brilliant literary invention but, from a legal standpoint, are flawed by a wrong assumption, i.e. the fact that robots are sentient being with autonomous will. Continue reading “The Mistake of Giving Legal Value To Asimov Robotics’ Laws”
The Italian Data Protection Code To Bash Genetic Research in Italy
A recent amendment to the Italian Data Protection Code (Legislative Decree 196/03) prevents researcher to re-use genetic data in projects different than those the data are collected for. Continue reading “The Italian Data Protection Code To Bash Genetic Research in Italy”
India’s Supreme Court, Gay Rights and Privacy. Maybe Something’s Wrong Out There…
Last August, the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark decision on privacy as a fundamental right, opposing the view that privacy has not a Constitutional stand:
the submission that privacy is only a right at common law misses the wood for the trees. The central theme is that privacy is an intrinsic part of life, personal liberty and of the freedoms guaranteed by Part III which entitles it to protection as a core of constitutional doctrine. The protection of privacy by the Constitution liberates it, as it were, from the uncertainties of statutory law which, as we have noted, is subject to the range of legislative annulments open to a majoritarian government. 1.
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