I sistemi di identificazione biometrica a distanza: un esempio paradigmatico delle sfide lanciate dalla tecnologia al diritto costituzionale

The essay deals with the legal problems arising from the widespread diffusion of remote biometric identification systems. These unparalleled technologies, based on artificial intelligence, are capable to involve some of the principal challenges that digital algorithmic technologies are posing to contemporary constitutionalism. Starting from the attempt of the most recent proposal of European regulation to dedicate more stringent rules to this issue, the analysis focuses on the difficulties of legal rules to regulate these instruments of surveillance and the overall threats to fundamental rights.