Paper written by our fellow Marco Mendola. This paper is concerned with the study of predictive policing as a tool for surveillance. With regard to the European legal framework, this research studies the influence of the predictive policing model primarily on the principle of presumption of innocence (Article 6.2 ECHR) and on reasonable suspicion. The […]
The purpose of this brief article is to argue that intelligence continues to need to experience a better configuration of the law, including that status being sustained over time. Conceptualised similarly to that of ‘Smart Power’, appropriately balancing ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ forms and approaches, the configuration of law sought is referenced in this article as finding constantly adaptable […]
East Asian countries are preparing for the implementation of robotic technologies into daily environments. Early this month, South Korea’s HUBO team won the DARPA Robotics Challenge and Beijing had announced their “Made in China 2025” national strategic plan, which aims to become the world’s leading industrial power. To compete with other countries, Japan’s Prime Minister […]
This work is a brief reflection on the ‘ambiguous nature of harms in Cyberspace’. It seeks to evaluate how harm is coded in cyber-regulations paying particular attention to the political momentum around the UK’s Computer Misuse Act (CMA) and the US’s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Its intention is to inject an element of […]
On November the 18th, 2013, Italy blocked, along with another nine file sharing websites, one of the largest Russian social…
Big Data and Social Control Alessandro Mantelero and Giuseppe Vaciago analyse in this paper the revolution in social analysis due to Big Data and their predictive capacities. To have access to this technology and to exploit its power it is necessary to have the availability of large data sets and to invest heavily in equipment […]
Paper written by Francesca Bosco and Giuseppe Vaciago.
Cloud Computing Workshop, 1 March 2012, Brussels, by Giuseppe Vaciago
Cory Altheide’s Workshop report, 2 May 2011, Milan, by Giuseppe Vaciago