The TikTok ruling and the future of Chinese high-tech multinationals

The recent decision of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in the TikTok case confirms the validity of the law mandating the forced sale of the US subsidiary of the Chinese social networking giant, sets an important precedent in the relationship between rights and national security, and provides a fairly precise idea of how state control over foreign companies, not only Chinese, will evolve by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Formiche.net Continue reading “The TikTok ruling and the future of Chinese high-tech multinationals”

Who will save us from technological profiling?

Equalize, the scandal that is filling the newsfeed of these hours re-proposes all the issues posed by similar events that have happened in Italy and abroad, and in particular, highlights three of them: the ‘loyalty’ of the civil servants entrusted with the power to enter the citizen’s lives, the involvement of private entities in the provision of technological services to critical apparatuses of the State, the need to ‘cut angles’ or to practice ‘plausible deniability’ on the part of institutions, companies and subjects in top positions even in private sectors – by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Strategikon – Italian Tech – La Repubblica
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Encryption and the EU: all the chikens coming home to roost

The First Report on Encryption recently published by the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security contains the guidelines and desiderata on encryption of EU structures dealing with security and crime fighting, and highlights the unresolved contradictions of the free availability of cryptographic technologies by Andrea Monti – Adjunct Professor of Digital Law – University of Chieti-Pescara – Initially published in Italian by Formiche.net Continue reading “Encryption and the EU: all the chikens coming home to roost”