Virtual infidelities… real divorces? Between law and cyberlaw

Abstract

This article approaches the advance of information technologies in conjugal relations, as a generation of new situations previously not thought of by legislators and what was once science fiction is now a paradoxically non-tangible reality such as the virtuality created by the development of the Internet. These advances create new challenges for the Law, which with its traditional rules will want to regulate them by itself, but at the same time a new response arises, such as cyberlaw with its own rules different from the traditional rules. Clearly, the new information technologies and applications that appear, such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, generate new relationship scenarios between people that could affect the very foundations of conjugal relationships. Virtual situations that have real impacts on personal relationships protected by law and that deserve to be addressed from every point of view.