IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

Addresses the difficult question of how to determine the authorship, and ownership, of copyright in highly collaborative works.

Explores the ideas, interests and institutions that shape the development of media systems, particularly in countries engaged in, and emerging from, violent conflict.

What does computable law mean for the autonomy, authority, and legitimacy of the legal system?

Although over 100 countries have developed data privacy laws, there is a lack of expert guidance on these laws.

A compilation of expertise in Internet law and in ethical considerations concerning social computing in emergencies.

This book provides a timely criminological investigation into the rapidly growing sale of fake medicines online.

This book examines rights issues in relation to visual privacy in the use of civilian drones.

Less than a decade after the Financial Crisis, we are witnessing the fast emergence of a new financial order driven by three different, yet interconnected, dynamics: first, the rapid application of technology - such as big data, machine learning, and distributed computing - to banking, lending, and investing, in particular with the emergence of virtual currencies and digital finance; second, a disintermediation fuelled by the rise of peer-to-peer lending platforms and crowd investment which challenge the traditional banking model and may, over time, lead to a transformation of the way both retail and corporate customers bank; and, third, a tendency of de-bureaucratisation under which new platforms and technologies challenge established organisational patterns that regulate finance and manage the money supply.

This edited collection seeks to map the landscape of contemporary informational interests, to evaluate a range of recognised and putative rights and wrongs associated with modern information societies, and to consider how law, regulation, and governance should be deployed in response.

Can the nation state survive the internet?

This timely book examines crucial developments in the field of privacy law, efforts by legal systems to impose their data protection standards beyond their borders and claims by states to assert sovereignty over data.

This textbook provides an introduction to digital forensics, a rapidly evolving field for solving crimes.

Digital Earth - Cyber threats, privacy and ethics in an age of paranoiaWhether it s the next big ransomware attack or cyber terrorism, digital threats have evolved drastically in recent years.

Social media has many advantages for professional communication - but it also carries considerable risks, including legal pitfalls.

An exploration of the current state of global trade law in the era of Big Data and AI.

This book explores how the Internet impacts on the protection of fundamental rights, particularly with regard to freedom of speech and privacy.

In the age of information, an open Internet is a key component for modern economic development.

This book describes the methodologies and tools used to conduct social cyber forensic analysis.

The book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and critical explanation of digital commons in China.

Successful cyberattacks can damage your organisation, no matter who is behind themThe goals of the cyberterrorist, the cybercriminal, the cyberactivist and the state-sponsored hacker may not be the same but the outcomes can be equally devastating.

This book provides original, diverse, and timely insights into the nature, scope, and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially machine learning and natural language processing, in relation to contracting practices and contract law.

Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law is a complete exploration of the relationship between information technology and intellectual property laws a very wide-ranging and complex, ever changing area of law.

The book considers how speech on social media during an armed conflict could potentially be considered a criminal offence.

This book explores, through a children's rights-based perspective, the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in technical solutions and a lack of understanding around code and algorithm capabilities.

We are living in times of deep and disruptive change.

Addressing the problems surrounding cyber security and cyberspace, this book bridges the gap between the technical and political worlds to increase our understanding of this major security concern in our IT-dependent society, and the risks it presents.

This book presents various areas related to cybersecurity.

This book considers the implications of the regulatory burden being borne increasingly by technological management rather than by rules of law.

Biobanks are critical infrastructure for medical research but they are also the subject of considerable ethical and legal uncertainty.

Legal Data and Information in Practice provides readers with an understanding of how to facilitate the acquisition, management, and use of legal data in organizations such as libraries, courts, governments, universities, and start-ups.

As a social process that places great stock in its stability and predictability, law does not deal easily or well with change.

Cellular technology has always been a surveillance technology, but "e;cellular convergence"e; - the growing trend for all forms of communication to consolidate onto the cellular handset - has dramatically increased the impact of that surveillance.

This book presents a novel framework to reconceptualize internet governance and better manage cyber attacks.

This book analyses emerging constitutional principles addressing the regulation of the internet at both the national and the supranational level.

Explores the role of international legal scholars in the construction of legal knowledge, looking at examples from the cyberwar debate.

An established authority in the field, this is the core reference work for practitioners on electronic communications in the European Union.

Law on the Web is ideal for anyone who wants to access Law Internet resources quickly and efficiently without becoming an IT expert.

The transfer of personal data to the UK raises a multitude of data protection law issues and opens up the view of the key challenges of global data exchange.

The regulation of pornography has always been a contentious issue, which has sparked wide-ranging debates surrounding the acceptability and place of pornography in society.

As the distributed architecture underpinning the initial Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist, libertarian project, 'blockchain' entered wider public imagination and vocabulary only very recently.

This edited book provides a comprehensive survey of the modern state of the art in forensic linguistics.

In this much anticipated sequel to the legal bestseller, The Future of Law, Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers to ask themselves, with their hands on their hearts, what elements of their current workload could be undertaken differently - more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working.