Cloud Computing and Big Data

The article seeks to explain how the temporal and spatial disjunction characterizing data exchanges in the framework of cloud computing services and big data processing requires a revision of current law – which by nature is fixed and territorially defined – if the use value of the data is to be understood more fully. Apart from the content of the norm, the analysis also concerns its construction: it considers the modes of regulation designed to make operators accountable by imposing a personal data ethics whilst upholding a principle of innovation, modelled on technical norms and best practices that combine regulation, co-regulation and self-regulation.