Prawo do informacji w epoce Internetu. Od globalizacji cyfrowej do prawa publicznego informatyki.

In the Internet age ─ as is happening in other areas ─ issues of public law are also approached with an interdisciplinary mentality in order to avoid research which is self-referential in character, with no relation to comparative law, information technology law, or international and commercial law, and divorced from contemporary history, sociology and interpersonal neurobiology (to name just a few subjects and / or related disciplines to the subject that we may call "information"). The present work shows that the new phenomena of information technology can be understood more effectively with scientific methodology more open to other forms of knowledge and to the events affecting the international community. In this paper, we highlight the so-called Internet revolution in the field of information in all areas. Consider, for example, the on-line encyclopaedia par excellence, Wikipedia. Already in 2005, the prestigious journal Nature had tested the credibility of the young Wikipedia, comparing it with several entries in the historic Encyclopaedia Britannica. On the site of CNET (where the research was published) it can be seen that, in 42 entries, only eight major errors were detected: half in the Wikipedia and half in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (“in the end, the journal found just eight serious errors, such as general misunderstandings of vital concepts, in the articles. Of those, four came from each site”), so that both sources appeared to be equally reliable. In 2009, nevertheless, the techno-digital revolution forced even the "paper" Encyclopaedia Britannica to launch its own “Wiki” version on the Internet, so as not to be obscured by Wikipedia. By the nature of this work, it is impossible to ensure conformity to the truth of a lot of the information, but at most the mere verisimilitude. Regarding facts relating to state secrets (Wikileaks, the Snowden case), wars (the Arab Spring, the War in Iraq) and terrorism (the Madrid bombings of 2004), it is highly unlikely that there are to be found anywhere on the web (nor in bookshops, libraries or even in the courtroom) sources able to confirm (or disprove) in a definitive manner the claims about the real events of war and intelligence. How does one prove that the documents put online by WikiLeaks are really the same as those held by the CIA or by a powerful banking group? How does one verify the information about Wars given (also) by so-called official sources, when these are systematically manipulated or censored by the propagandists of any government and / or information service?