cybersecurity

The European Commission in December 2019 declared that “an ambitious 5G introduction is essential for Europe to have a leading position and to take early advantage of the new market opportunities”. 5G will be a physical overhaul of essential networks that will have decades-long impact: it will entail the conversion to a mostly all-software network and future upgrades will be software updates much like the current upgrades to smartphones.

La capacità dello Stato di gestire i rischi cibernetici sta diventando una delle priorità strategiche per le amministrazioni pubbliche al fine di assicurare il giovamento e il beneficio dei vantaggi e delle opportunità derivanti da uno spazio cibernetico sicuro per i cittadini e le imprese. Al fine di erigere un sistema in grado di gestire e rispondere alle minacce derivanti, l’Italia ha sviluppato nel corso degli anni documenti programmatici e operativi che costituiscono la struttura italiana di cybersecurity.

The digital economy is massive and still growing.

The rapid development of the internet has greatly affected the functioning of the economy and digital technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) will continue to shape the transformation of European industries. In that context, online platforms – covering a wide range of activities such as search engines, social media, e-commerce and sharing economy portals – play a prominent role as they are the most accessed websites. 

Data collection is a market process that developed particularly in recent years, even though firms always needed information about their customers in order to manage their products and to create new ones, as well as to choose the best price (or prices) to apply. Until a few years ago, however, this collection was made in a “discrete” way: every time the customer came into contact with the firm, the latter collected information about the former. This contact could be a physical encounter, a telephone call, an email exchange.