Il sequestro informatico nel prisma del principio di proporzione

The author focuses on the seizure of IT material and on the latest jurisprudential guidelines on the necessary compliance with the principle of proportionality in case of seizure of the entire content of an IT system. Highlighted the difficulty of a convincing reductio ad unum of the investigative instrument in question with respect to the "traditional" seizure, also due to the higher rank of the individual rights affected by the measure, the Author underlines the inadequacy of the current legislation to balance the opposing interests at stake.