Privacy and Data Protection in Software Services

The aim of the book is to create a bridge between two ‘lands’ that are usually kept separate: technical tools and legal rules should be bound together for moulding a special ‘toolbox’ to solve present and future issues. The volume is intended to contribute to this ‘toolbox’ in the area of software services, while addressing how to make legal studies work closely with engineers’ and computer scientists’ fields of expertise, who are increasingly involved in tangled choices on daily programming and software development. In this respect, law has not lost its importance and its own categories in the digital world, but as well as any social science needs to experience a new realistic approach amid technological development and individuals’ fundamental rights and freedoms.

Roberto Senigaglia is full professor of Private law at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy), where he teaches Private Law, Family Law, Juvenile Civil Law and Fundamental Rights and Privacy. He has  Ph.D. in European Civil and Commercial Contracts Law. His scientific activity is focused on issues in the areas of Personal and Family Law and Law of Obligations and Contracts. His research focuses, in particular, on the impact of Fundamental Rights in Private Law relationships. He authored numerous contributions, including monographic ones, in the different areas of civil law. 

Claudia Irti is associate professor of Civil Law at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy), where she teaches Private Law, Family Law and Tourism Law. She holds Ph.D. in Comparative Civil Law from the University of Firenze (Italy) and was graduated magna cum laude from the University of Bologna (Italy). She has been a visiting scholar at the University ofBerkeley (California, USA), at the University of Regensburg (Germany) and at the Max Plank Institute of Hamburg (Germany). She published numerous articles, book chapters and one monograph on several Civil Law and Family Law matters. 

Alessandro Bernes (Trieste, October 1990) is postdoctoral researcher and adjunct professor at the Department of Economics of Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). After his master’s degree in Law, he obtained Ph.D. in Law, Market and Person at Ca' Foscari University. His studies focus on technical and organisational measures needed to ensure better personal data processing in accordance with scientific research purposes. He has published articles and essays in disparate scientific academic journals on the subject of personal data protection, real estate law and antitrust damage claims.