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) Fundamental rights and the role of institutions (digital citizenship, internet access and net neutrality); (ii) Personality on the internet: protection of personal data, digital identity and the right to be forgotten; (iii) E-democracy. Forms and problems of digital participation (e-democracy and e-government; e-democracy and electronic voting); (iv) The "right to the Internet": reasons and principles for democratising the Internet (the digital divide; critical digital education); (v) e-Health: IT legal profiles (artificial intelligence and algorithmic medicine; health information systems and electronic health records; the electronic health record; telemedicine and mHealth); (vi) cybersecurity (from computer security to cybersecurity: the paradigms of computer security; cyber incidents; guidelines and objectives of computer security; cyber threats); (vii) from copyright to copyleft; (viii) digital transformation in the world of work (remote work; the right to disconnect; remote work and the principle of free choice); (ix) Public Administration and Digital Rights (Digital Rights; Digital Administration; Transparency, Openness and Data Protection; From Digital First to Digital Exclusivity); (x) Digital Life and Death. The electronic body and its legal protection (The digital fingerprint; Personal identity and digital identity; Digital identity and representation of the self; Digital death; The life and death of the electronic body); (xii) From the electronic signature to smart contracts (Handwriting and signature; Establishing the identity of the signatory; The certainty of the date of signature; IT "documentality"; Writing, electronic signatures and digital signature; Smart contracts); (xiii) Electronic justice and the digitalisation of justice; (xv) Forensic IT: Legal and technical profiles in the processing of digital evidence; (xvi) Focus I: Cybercrime and the phenomena of cyberstalking, cyberbullying and revenge porn; (xviii) Focus II: Hate speech on the Internet

To prepare for the exam, students will have to study the following text:
Thomas Casadei, Stefano Pietropaoli, Diritto e tecnologie informatiche. Seconda edizione ampliata e aggiornata, Wolters Kluwer, 2024