The Digital Rights Delusion

This book examines the ever-increasing impact of technology on our lives and explores a range of legal and constitutional questions that this raises.

It considers the extent to which concepts such as ‘cyberspace’ and ‘digital rights’ advance or undermine our understanding of this development and proposes a number of novel approaches to the effective protection of our rights in this rapidly evolving environment.

Finally, it shows how the abuse of the adjective digital has demoted legal rights into subjective and individual claims.

The work will be of particular interest to scholars of privacy, artificial intelligence and free speech, as well as policymakers and the general reader.

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The one-nanometre microprocessor that could change everything in the technological challenge between the US and China

A new Chinese study and the European DARE project are relaunching RISC-V as a strategic alternative to proprietary technologies. But American pressure risks blocking Europe’s race towards digital autonomy – by Andrea Monti – Originally published in Italian in La Repubblica – Italian Tech
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Why the EU is destined to lose the technology tariff war

The veil of hypocrisy surrounding the Trump administration’s reasons for imposing tariffs and the European Commission’s recent weak show of strength highlight the EU’s structural problem: the absence — in the technology sector and beyond — of a strategically realistic vision by Andrea Monti – Originally published in Italian on Italian Tech
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The EU survival kit lacks something that makes it effectively useful in the event of war

The prepper bag of European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib highlights the lack of understanding of what a hybrid conflict is. But above all, what it means to ‘survive’ a global attack on communication systems by Andrea Monti – Originally published in Italian on Italian Tech
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Italy asks Meta, X and LinkedIn to pay VAT. Will there be retaliation from Trump?

Reuters once again raises the issue of data monetisation, but above all that of web tax and the consequent risk (now more concrete than ever) of US retaliation. How realistic is this scenario? A hypothesis by Andrea Monti – Originally published in Italian on Italian Tech – La Repubblica
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