Politica dell'innovazione, democrazia elettronica e informatica giuridica. Profili civili e penali del cloud computing nell'ordinamento giuridico nazionale: alla ricerca di un equilibrio tra diritti dell'utente e doveri del fornitore

This article deals with legal and technological issues related to cloud computing. The first part presents the main technical issues, placing the phenomenon of cloud computing in the daily technological framework. The central part of the study, on the other hand, deals with legal issues both from the point of view of the user of the service and from the point of view of the operator/provider. A part also investigates the issues of copyright and the discipline of contents, computer crimes, illegal treatment of data and the legislative regulation of the European Union.