On 8, 9 and 10 July 2024, the tenth annual conference of ICON•S – The International Society of Public Law – was held at IE University in Madrid on the theme “The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence”.
The conference was an opportunity to encourage reflection and discussion on the various transformations that are taking place as a result of the great social challenges of our time: the search for sustainability, the AI revolution and, more generally, the need for resilience in an exponentially changing context. Faced with numerous transitions, sometimes in conflict with each other, scholars from around the world met to discuss the problems posed by such changes and the ability of national constitutions, state and supranational structures, and current regulatory regimes to anticipate, mitigate, and adapt to unexpected crises and challenges. In this context, the annual ICON’S Conference in Madrid was a fruitful opportunity to take stock of the role that public law, in its various branches, can (and must) still play
in responding to the new challenges posed by the changes mentioned above.
As part of this Conference, the panel discussion entitled “New technologies between security and the protection of fundamental rights: a zero–sum game?”, organised by Sveva Del Gatto and Fulvio Costantino with the participation of scholars from various disciplines, not only legal ones, focused in particular on the transformation, or rather, the revolution generated by the advent of artificial intelligence in the field of public security and the many ethical, legal and social issues that arise from it.
Introduzione
Capitolo I. – P. Sernani, P. Contardo, A.F. Dragoni, Artificial Intelligence for Surveillance Applications: a Technical Perspective
Capitolo II. – S. Del Gatto, Facial Recognition Technologies, Public Safety Needs, and Administrative Safeguards. A complex Balance
Capitolo III. – S. Billi, Riconoscimento facciale e diritti fondamentali: considerazioni di diritto processuale penale per il decimo convegno annuale “Icon’S”
Capitolo IV. – G. Galluccio Mezio, Tecnologie di riconoscimento facciale: una riflessione sul loro impiego con finalità investigative e probatorie
Capitolo V. – F. Costantino, Sicurezza sociale e discriminazione sociale
Capitolo VI. – P. Rubechini, Cybersecurity Perspectives in Italy. Protecting the National Economy through New Technologies