In a judgment of 1 October 2019, Planet49 (C-673/17), the Grand Chamber of the Court held that consent to the storage of or access to information in the form of cookies installed on a website user’s terminal equipment is not validly constituted if given by way of a pre-checked checkbox, irrespective of whether or not the information in question is personal data. Furthermore, the Court made clear that the information that the service pro...

In the context of the increasingly complicated health crisis that we are facing, the multiple normative acts that regulate – often without prior notice – parts of the educational process, introduce additional access procedures or their conditioning, aimed at protecting personal data. The study analyzes the causes of the unpredictability of these rules, and the effects they can have on the educational process, but also on data security. F...

This study aims to provide an original explanation of the principle of truth finding regulated by art. 22 of the Civil Procedure Code and in the light of the Bangalore Principles, from a multidisciplinary perspective: procedural law, legal logic, philosophy and, at the same time, it approaches the aesthetics of judicial creation, through the touches that explain the methodology of the judge’s art to perform the jurisdictional...

Introduced as the successor of the mobile internet, the metaverse is aiming to be the global network of interconnected devices, characterized by advanced permeability of the delimitation between physical and digital realities (people, spaces and things in physical reality are recreated in digital realities), able to offer immersive and vivid experiences, based on connectivity and interoperability, technically made through computers, sm...

In the system of continental law, the ordinary case law does not constitute a source of law, so that the meaning of a rule can be clarified in this way, because in such a case the judge would become a legislator, according to the constitutional dispute court. The complexity of certain cases can sometimes lead to different applications of the law in the practice of the courts. The article draws attention to the intolerable degree of entr...

The international arms control regime has reached a stalemate with the withdrawal of the United States from a series of international treaties and the launch of new military defense and consolidation objectives in pursuit of absolute strategic and technological superiority. This article analyzes the international arms control regime in terms of its strengths and weaknesses, and seeks to situate the positions of the nuclear-power states...

In C-645/19 Facebook Ireland Ltd and Others v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit, the Court confirmed that only the lead Data Protection Authority can act against a controller, another supervisory authority can only initiate proceedings against a controller, provided that this power is exercised in one of the limited situations where the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 confers a competence to adopt a final decision, and provided that the cooperat...

The processing of biometric data resulting from the illegal surveillance of employees at work is certainly one of the most common practices of operators, and the violation of the provisions established by art. 5 para. (1) lit. a) reported to art. 6 para. (1) of the General Data Protection Regulation must be strongly sanctioned. A last paradigmatic case is that of the operator Glove Technology SRL, a company specialized in consulting serv...

The right of withdrawal in consumer law is seen as a technique by which the legislature compensates the unequal balance of power at the time of concluding the contract by giving the consumer the opportunity to quietly examine the consequences of his purchase, to get information about the price of equivalent products or to consult with his family or his entourage, thus allowing the consolidation of consent. In point of legal nature, the ...

The article debates the issue of the admissibility as evidence, in labour disputes, of clandestine audio or video recordings, without the aggressor’s consent, made by the victim of the intrusive and/or abusive conduct, as a form of harassment. In practice, the difficulty is given by the doubt of the courts regarding the admissibility of such recordings, obviously not wanted and not authorized by the aggressor, coming from the cir...