Small number of private individuals invading state domains says Mattarella

A very small number of private

individuals are invading state domains, President Sergio

Mattarella said Wednesday referring to unnamed tech tycoons.

"The concentration of control of new technologies in the hands

of very few private individuals—who are invading domains that

until recently were the responsibility of states and

organizations designated for such purposes by international

treaties, starting with space—has made them so powerful that

they presume to disregard, if not overturn, every rule,"

Mattarella said at the COTEC Italian Innovation Society's annual

symposium in Venice.

"New alleged actors of imponderable legitimacy, for a new

international disorder.

"Yet, every human activity calls for norms of behavior and

relationships, a code, a grammar. Therefore, a clear issue of

sovereignty arises, on matters involving the security of society

and the rights of citizens."

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