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Repealed the Pisanu decree, Italy opens to Wi-Fi

On January 1, 2011, just ten years ago, Italy opened up to Wi-Fi. Since the summer of 2005, as a result of the Pisanu decree , passed following the London and Madrid attacks, public Wi-Fi had been subject to so many restrictions and authorizations that it was effectively banned.

In short, it was a measure that was supposed to counter Islamic terrorism, but whose effectiveness was never demonstrated. Instead, the enormous digital delay that Italy accumulated in those years was demonstrated: in a time when data connections were still very expensive and with incomplete coverage, Wi-Fi could have supported the spread of the Internet, which instead slowed down. . It must be said that almost immediately there were requests, more and more pressing to abolish those rules, which instead were promptly confirmed in the so-called Milleproroghe decree of the end of the year , a provision that contains disparate expiring rules whose effects are in fact extended. Shortly before the repeal, a journalist went to Pisanu himself, who in the meantime was no longer a minister, to ask him what he thought of the matter and he candidly said that he was not an expert in technological matters and that he trusted the reports of the security services that instead were. opposites.

The repeal was due to another Minister of the Interior (always from a Berlusconi government , but the next one), Roberto Maroni, who on December 22, just as the Parliament was dismissing the final text of the decree, inserted the abrogation of the article 7 of the Pisanu decree, for which from 1 January 2011 anyone wishing to offer public Wi-Fi access was no longer obliged to request the identification of users with an identity document , keeping a relative paper archive for years. Only the obligation to report the hotspot to the authority remained in force.

In the report accompanying the Maroni proposal, it was written that "the bureaucratic burdens due to photocopying and archiving of user documents were indicated as highly penalizing factors for the development of new technologies and Web tools. It was also highlighted that in no Western country is there such strict legislation on access to Internet networks, and above all to Wi-Fi ".

 

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