The course explores the relationship between the key concepts of legal informatics and the protection of rights, in order to learn and understand the potential and risks of the digital sphere, as well as the legal instruments in force or currently under discussion, also through the analysis of practical cases. From this perspective, the following main topics will be dealt with during the course:
(i) From the origins of legal informatics to legal tech; (ii) Internet law; (iii) Cyber rights; (iv) Data governance; (v) Data protection and GDPR; (vi) Data science; (vii) Open data, big data and transparency; (viii) Datagate: The Edward Snowden case; (ix) Copyright, copyleft, Creative Commons licences: The Aaron Swartz case; (x) Algorithms; Algorithmic discrimination; (xi) Surveillance in the technological age and legal protection; (xii) Internet of Things; (xiii) Digital Single Market; xiv) Digital Services Act; xv) E-commerce; xvi) Digital public administration; xvii) Artificial intelligence and regulation; xviii) Open Source Intelligence; xix) Secrecy and confidentiality; xx) Data persistence and deletion; xxi) Digital personality; xxii) Cyber threats and human security; xxiii) Cybersecurity; xxiv) Cybercrime; xxv) Focus: Digital Children and Family Technology; xxvi) Focus: Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression; xxvii) Focus: Women’s Rights in the Digital Sphere; xxviii) Computer Ethics

Giovanni Ziccardi, Diritti digitali. Informatica giuridica per le nuove professioni, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2022.