Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots. Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be applied to nonhuman entities. This task is completed by developing a framework useful for determining the kinds of personhood for which a nonhuman entity migh...
A wide range of industry sectors will outsource service provision (for example, banking, pharmaceuticals, and insurance companies). This can happen where an organisation outsources its IT payroll needs, its helpdesk and IT maintenance requirements, its payment processing, or its whole IT function. The key risk The key risk for an organisation that enters into an outsourcing transaction, are that services that it receives from the supplier will be worse than the services they were receiving befo...
Advance praise for The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law “I read this book from cover to cover. The examples of case law are of enormous illustrative value. Some of them will raise your blood pressure (well, mine went up several notches, anyway). Well worth the time to read!” —Vint Cerf, chairman, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) “Doug Isenberg pulls off the toughest hat trick in legal writing—he and his contributing authors map out the legal landscape of cyberspace...
This comprehensive book provides a detailed survey and practical examination of a wide range of legal and regulatory topics in HealthTech. Combining the insights of leading healthcare experts from around the world, chapters first examine the key characteristics, use cases and regulation in the field, before turning to the development and potential applications of cutting-edge technologies in healthcare. The book also addresses the main issues involved in setting up and running a HealthTech busin...
With an ever-growing number of users, the Internet is central to the processes of globalization, cultural formations, social encounters and economic development. These aside, it is also fast becoming an important political domain. Struggles over disclosure, access and regulation are only the most visible signs that the Internet is quickly becoming a site of fierce political conflict involving states, technical groups, business and civil society. As the debate over the global politics of the Inte...
Research Handbook on Information Law and Governance
by Sharon K. Sandeen, Christoph Rademacher, and Ansgar Ohly
This fresh and insightful Research Handbook delivers global perspectives on information law and governance, delving into principles of information law in the areas of trade secrecy, privacy, data protection and cybersecurity. Providing US, Japanese and European perspectives, this Research Handbook presents an overview of legal regimes concerning the protection of information, with a particular focus on trade secrecy protection. Top international contributors offer analyses of general principles...
This innovative and original book explores the relationship between blockchain and antitrust, highlighting the mutual benefits that stem from cooperation between the two and providing a unique perspective on how law and technology could cooperate. Delivering a legal, economic, and technical analysis of antitrust and blockchain, Thibault Schrepel provides a well-rounded examination of their mutual flaws and the limitations that occur when they ignore each other. He explores the anticompetitive pr...
Sam's in an Instant Assortment 2002
The Panoptic Sort was published in 1993. Its focus was on privacy and surveillance. But unlike the majority of publications addressing these topics in the United States at the time that were focused on the privacy concerns of individuals, especially those related to threats associated with government surveillance, that book sought to direct public toward the activities of commercial firms. It was highly critical of the failure of scholars and political activists to pay sufficient attention to th...
Information Technology & The Law
by Chriswards, Ian Walden, Chris Edwards, and Nigel Savage
New legislation which has an impact on information technology (eg. data protection), legislation that has been extended/altered to take account of information technology (eg. copyright, patent, evidence) and, contractual means of ensuring legal security, in the absence of legislation (eg. interchange agreements) are all covered in this book.
With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice. But these results are by no means inevitable: a systematic campaign to protect the entrenched industrial infor...
Sie wollen wissen, warum plötzlich alle Welt von sozialen Netzwerken redet? Prima! Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen, sich einen Facebook Account zu erstellen und einzurichten. Die Autorin zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie alte Freunde bei Facebook wiederfinden und neue dazugewinnen. Außerdem lernen Sie, mit Ihren Freunden und Verwandten über Facebook zu kommunizieren und sich auszutauschen sowie Fotos und Videos auf Facebook hochzuladen. Bei all dem kommt auch ein kurzer Einblick in andere soziale Netzwerke wie Twitt...
EU GDPR & EU-US Privacy Shield
US organizations processing the personal data of EU residents must comply with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from May 25 2018. Failure to comply could result in fines of up to 4% of annual global turnover or 20 million. This concise guide is essential reading for US organizations wanting an easy to follow overview of the new regulations and the compliance obligations for handling data of EU citizens, including guidance on the EU-US Privacy Shield.
An NPR Best Book of the Year Included in The Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction of the Year An Independent and New Statesman Book of the Year Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit—a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter—lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin, 4chan, and Silk Road, of radicalism, crime, and pornogr...
The Psychology of Cyber Crime (Advances in Digital Crime, Forensics, and Cyber Terrorism)
by Grainne Kirwan and Andrew Power
The Psychology of Cyber Crime: Concepts and Principles aims to be the leading reference examining the psychology of cybercrime. This book considers many aspects of cybercrime, including research on offenders, legal issues, the impact of cybercrime on victims, punishment, and preventative measures. It is designed as a source for researchers and practitioners in the disciplines of criminology, cyberpsychology and forensic psychology, though it is also likely to be of significant interest to many s...
Essential Licensing Questions - Windows Server 2000 to 2012 R2
by Louise Ulrick
Danielle Keats Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are-in bathrooms and bedrooms, with our families and our lovers, in the parts of our lives we assume are untouchable-and shows us that privacy, as we think we know it, is largely already gone. From nonconsensual pornography to online extortion, to the sale of our data for profit, we are vulnerable to abuse. As Citron reveals, wherever we live, laws have failed mise...
Innovative Governance Models for Emerging Technologies
Emerging technologies create challenges for traditional regulatory approaches. The contributors to this book - leading scholars in law, innovation, and technology - address the need for new governance methods and models. The unique characteristics of emerging technologies - their diverse applications, the myriad concerns raised by new technologies, the need for public engagement, and the issue of effective coordination between governance players - create the need for new governance approaches....
What does computable law mean for the autonomy, authority, and legitimacy of the legal system? Are we witnessing a shift from Rule of Law to a new Rule of Technology? Should we even build these things in the first place? This unique volume collects original papers by a group of leading international scholars to address some of the fascinating questions raised by the encroachment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into more aspects of legal process, administration, and culture. Weighing near-term b...