Confidential information law Books

Book SynopsisSome would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden''s revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, concerns about individual privacy have significantly increased. The Internet generates risks, unimagined even twenty years ago, to the security and integrity of information in all its forms. The manner in which information is collected, stored, exchanged, and used has changed forever; and with it, the character of the threats to individual privacy. The scale of accessible private data generated by the phenomenal growth of blogs, social media, and other contrivances of our information age pose disturbing threats to our privacy. And the hunger for gossip continues to fuel sensationalist media that frequently degrade the notion of a private domain to which we reasonably lay claim.In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Raymond Wacks looks at all aspects of privacy to include numerous recent changes, and considers how this fundamental value might be reconciled with competing interests such as security and freedom of expression.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewAlthough physically small, this is a dense book stuffed with facts and arguments. It is to be read slowly and with consideration. And perhaps a degree of worry that Privacy is still so badly defined and addressed by legislation. * Concatenation, Peter Tyres *[T]here is, to our knowledge, no more erudite and persuasive an advocate for protecting privacy than Raymond Wacks. If you ever find yourself in a debate on privacy versus free speech, this is the succinct yet thoroughly researched source of some very effective arguments in favour of privacy. * Philip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Privacy in peril ; 2. An enduring value ; 3. A legal right ; 4. Privacy and freedom of expression ; 5. Data protection ; 6. The death of privacy? ; References ; Further reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection comprises eighteen contemporary articles on an often overlooked, but important, field of intellectual property law: trade secrets and undisclosed information. Divided into five parts, the selected articles examine various aspects of trade secret law, including its historical development and the range of theories and justifications for trade secret protection. The material also provides a detailed exploration of the scope and limits of trade secret protection, and addresses how trade secret issues arise in a number of contexts, including employment, governmental relations, and the internet. Including an original introduction by the editors, Trade Secrets and Undisclosed Information brings this significant subject into the forefront of discussion, and will be an invaluable resource to students, scholars and practitioners alike.Trade Review'An excellent selection of informative articles on trade secret rights.'Table of Contents18 Articles, dating from 1998 - 2013 Contributors include: P. Samuelson, M.A. Lemley, D.S. Levine, R.G. Bone, C.M. Correa, M. Risch, S. Ghosh

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Book SynopsisIt has often been said that information is power. This is more true in the information age than ever. The book profiles the tools used by criminal law to protect confidential information. It deals with the essence of information, the varieties of confidential information, and the basic models for its protection within the context of the Internet and social networks.Eli Lederman examines the key prohibitions against collecting protected information, and against using, disclosing, and disseminating it without authorization. The investigation cuts across a broad subject matter to discuss and analyze key topics such as trespassing and peeping, the human body as a source of information, computer trespassing, tracking and collecting personal information in the public space, surveillance, privileged communications, espionage and state secrets, trade secrets, personal information held by others, and profiling and sexting.Infocrime will appeal to graduate and undergraduate scholars and academics in the legal arena, in law schools and schools of communication, and to practicing lawyers with an interest in legal theory and a concern for the protection of the personal realm in a world of increasingly invasive technologies.Trade Review'This substantial contribution is a valuable resource for scholars and decision makers who consider the role of criminal law in controlling unauthorized use of information.' --Geraldine Szott Moohr, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice'A comprehensive study of criminal law on the prominent forms of protection provided for confidential information, this monograph is a valuable contribution for its tripartite modeling of criminal provisions aimed at protecting confidential information against unauthorized use or disclosure. Since the notion of 'protection of information' may extend to several branches of criminal law safeguarding diverse values and interests - e.g. peeping, interception of communication, eavesdropping, commercial espionage, etc.- the well-designed empirical research on criminal provisions based on a distinction as to the source, medium of transfer or the content of the confidential information makes the book a useful tool both for scholars and practitioners.' --Paul De Hert, University of Brussels/Tilburg, Belgium'Infocrime: Protecting Information Through Criminal Law is a timely, rigorous and insightful contribution to the law of information. Professor Lederman has developed comprehensive models for the protection of information that enable the reader to understand the nature and evolution of information crimes. The patchwork quilt that is American information law has challenged broad theoretical attempts to elucidate the law before, so it is encouraging to see the success of Lederman's novel perspective and, very importantly, to discern how criminal law will respond to pressing contemporary issues such as privacy and cyber-bullying. On these Lederman offers sober, thoughtful suggestions for the appropriate application of criminal law that act as a measured counterpoint against the inevitable rush of technological development.' --Avner Levin, Toronto Metropolitan University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Concepts, Terms, Structure 2. The Spatial Model 3. The Communication Model 4a. The Content Model: NATIONAL SECURITY AND TRADE SECRETS 4b. The Content Model: INFORMATION PRIVACY 5. Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Presenting a concise, yet wide-ranging and contemporary overview of the field, this Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law focuses on how we arrived at our privacy laws, and how the law can deal with new and emerging challenges from digital technologies, social networks and public health crises. This illuminating and interdisciplinary book demonstrates how the history of privacy law has been one of constant adaptation to emerging challenges, illustrating the primacy of the right to privacy amidst a changing social and cultural landscape. Key features include: Incisive analysis of the meaning and value of privacy and the ways in which legal, social and economic institutions respond to our understanding of privacy in contemporary society A uniquely concise, contextual approach to privacy law, examining privacy as a constantly evolving social phenomenon and the legal implications of its mutability Historical and comparative insights into privacy and data protection laws across the common law world. This richly detailed book is an informative and thought-provoking resource for students, academics and practitioners of privacy and data protection law. Its interdisciplinary insights will also appeal to those working in legal history, media and cultural studies, economics and political science.Trade Review'Megan Richardson's work on privacy is evangelical. It explains the origins and teaching of privacy and navigates wisely between hope and despair with respect to privacy in this age of Surveillance Capitalism. This well written gospel (or ''good news'') of privacy law will not only inform the mind, but more importantly, inspire vibrant spiritual adherence to this unique construct of the human species.' --Paul de Hert, Brussels University-Tilburg, Belgium'Megan Richardson's superb new book Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law provides an overview of privacy law that is concisely written yet broad in its scope, accessible to non-experts yet rich in its insights. Focusing on the Anglo-American legal tradition but drawing upon its interactions with EU law and other jurisdictions, Richardson masterfully steers readers through the historical roots and multiple strands of privacy law to the challenges of the contemporary digital world. I will definitely be recommending this book to students, colleagues, and privacy professionals alike.' --Lisa Austin, University of Toronto, Canada'This Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law is an exceptional book. Clearly written and accessible, it provides a detailed and nuanced account of the key theoretical and legal issues at the heart of contemporary debates about privacy. This book makes a substantial contribution to the field and is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of privacy.' --Benjamin Goold, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Meaning and value of privacy 3. Regulating for privacy 4. Privacy law in transition 5. Changing the paradigm Appendix: Rights to privacy/private life in human rights texts Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Presenting a concise, yet wide-ranging and contemporary overview of the field, this Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law focuses on how we arrived at our privacy laws, and how the law can deal with new and emerging challenges from digital technologies, social networks and public health crises. This illuminating and interdisciplinary book demonstrates how the history of privacy law has been one of constant adaptation to emerging challenges, illustrating the primacy of the right to privacy amidst a changing social and cultural landscape. Key features include: Incisive analysis of the meaning and value of privacy and the ways in which legal, social and economic institutions respond to our understanding of privacy in contemporary society A uniquely concise, contextual approach to privacy law, examining privacy as a constantly evolving social phenomenon and the legal implications of its mutability Historical and comparative insights into privacy and data protection laws across the common law world. This richly detailed book is an informative and thought-provoking resource for students, academics and practitioners of privacy and data protection law. Its interdisciplinary insights will also appeal to those working in legal history, media and cultural studies, economics and political science.Trade Review'Megan Richardson's work on privacy is evangelical. It explains the origins and teaching of privacy and navigates wisely between hope and despair with respect to privacy in this age of Surveillance Capitalism. This well written gospel (or ''good news'') of privacy law will not only inform the mind, but more importantly, inspire vibrant spiritual adherence to this unique construct of the human species.' --Paul de Hert, Brussels University-Tilburg, Belgium'Megan Richardson's superb new book Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law provides an overview of privacy law that is concisely written yet broad in its scope, accessible to non-experts yet rich in its insights. Focusing on the Anglo-American legal tradition but drawing upon its interactions with EU law and other jurisdictions, Richardson masterfully steers readers through the historical roots and multiple strands of privacy law to the challenges of the contemporary digital world. I will definitely be recommending this book to students, colleagues, and privacy professionals alike.' --Lisa Austin, University of Toronto, Canada'This Advanced Introduction to Privacy Law is an exceptional book. Clearly written and accessible, it provides a detailed and nuanced account of the key theoretical and legal issues at the heart of contemporary debates about privacy. This book makes a substantial contribution to the field and is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of privacy.' --Benjamin Goold, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Meaning and value of privacy 3. Regulating for privacy 4. Privacy law in transition 5. Changing the paradigm Appendix: Rights to privacy/private life in human rights texts Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis state-of-the-art Research Handbook provides an overview of research into, and the scope of current thinking in, the field of big data analytics and the law. It contains a wealth of information to survey the issues surrounding big data analytics in legal settings, as well as legal issues concerning the application of big data techniques in different domains.Featuring contributions from a variety of expert scholars, this is an interdisciplinary dialogue addressing big data analytics, tools and techniques and the societal impact of the field. Chapters analyze both cases anchored in a particular legal system (such as anti-corruption in China) and big data law approaches relevant across multiple practice areas: including machine learning within law, legal information retrieval, natural language processing and e-discovery. It also offers original insights from industry project reports that use big data law techniques in interesting, new ways.Providing a unique and interdisciplinary blend of analysis, this Research Handbook will be a key resource for legal scholars and students researching in areas such as criminal, tax, copyright and administrative law. It will also prove useful for practicing lawyers wanting to get a sense of the legal practice of the future, as well as law-makers thinking about the use of big data law techniques in government policy.Trade Review'With insights across a spectrum of experts, this Handbook serves as a vital guide for thinking through some of the opportunities and challenges that arise with the use of big data in legal settings.' -- Jonathan L. Zittrain, Harvard Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Big Data Law 1 Roland Vogl 1 The accuracy, equity, and jurisprudence of criminal risk assessment 9 Sharad Goel, Ravi Shroff, Jennifer Skeem and Christopher Slobogin 2 The many faces of facial recognition 29 Stephen Caines 3 Artificially intelligent government: A review and agenda 57 David Freeman Engstrom and Daniel E. Ho 4 Big data and copyright law 87 Daniel Seng 5 Big data analytics, online terms of service and privacy policies 115 Przemysław Pałka and Marco Lippi 6 Data analytics and tax law 135 Benjamin Alarie, Anthony Niblett and Albert Yoon 7 Experience of big data anti-corruption in China 150 Ran Wang 8 Machine learning and law: An overview 171 Harry Surden 9 SCOTUS outcome prediction: A new machine learning approach 185 Ashkon Farhangi and Ajay Sohmshetty 10 Legal information retrieval 198 Ashraf Bah Rabiou 11 LexNLP: Natural language processing and information extraction for legal and regulatory texts 216 Michael J. Bommarito II, Daniel Martin Katz and Eric M. Detterman 12 Quantitative legal research in Germany 228 Dirk Hartung 13 Big data analytics for e-discovery 252 Johannes C. Scholtes and Hendrik Jacob van den Herik 14 Generalizability: Machine learning and humans-in-the-loop 284 John Nay and Katherine J. Strandburg 15 The VICTOR Project: Applying artificial intelligence to Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court 303 Ricardo Vieira de Carvalho Fernandes, Danilo Barros Mendes, Gustavo Henrique T.A. Carvalho and Hugo Honda Ferreira 16 Explainable artificial intelligence 317 Mary-Anne Williams 17 Explainability and transparency of machine learning in ADM systems 340 Bernhard Waltl 18 Certifying artificial intelligence systems 356 Florian Möslein and Roberto V. Zicari 19 Rules, cases and arguments in artificial intelligence and law 373 Heng Zheng and Bart Verheij 20 Artificial intelligence and the zealous litigator 388 James Yoon 21 Evaluating legal services: The need for a quality movement and standard measures of quality and value 403 Daniel W. Linna Jr. 22 Machine learning and EU data-sharing practices: Legal aspects of machine learning training datasets for AI systems 431 Mauritz Kop 23 AI-driven contract review: A product development journey 453 Shlomit Labin and Uri Segal 24 Practical guide to artificial intelligence and contract review 466 Andrew Antos and Nischal Nadhamuni 25 Legal marketplaces using machine learning techniques 481 Verónica Sorin and Martí Manent Index

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Book SynopsisThis book delivers a comprehensive examination of the legal systems that regulate the responsibilities of intermediaries for illegal online content in both the EU and the US. It assesses whether existing systems are capable of tackling modern challenges, ultimately advocating for the introduction of a double-sided duty of care, requiring online intermediaries to do more to tackle illegal content whilst also better protecting their users' rights.Key features include: discussion of the fundamental rights implications of increased intermediary responsibility critical appraisal of the current EU system, as laid down in the e-Commerce Directive, and recommendations for reform a detailed examination of US intermediary liability law, namely Section 230 CDA and Section 512(c) DMCA• /li> an overview of key developments in law and in practice in relation to all types of illegal online content, including copyright-infringing content, child sexual abuse material, terrorist content and hate speech analysis of the latest regulatory developments, including the copyright in the DSM Directive, the amended Audiovisual Media Directive and the Terrorist Content Regulation. This incisive book will be a key resource for practitioners and policy makers working on issues relating to intermediary liability and illegal online content. Deploying the relevant case law, legal literature and legislative history of the topic, it will also be of value to students and academics in the field.Trade Review‘Wilman has written a great and overwhelming book that can without doubt be qualified as a landmark in the discussion of liability of providers. The book contains a thoughtful analysis which is clearly structured and brings many debates to a precise point.’ -- Gerald Spindler, Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law‘One of the many interesting aspects of this book is that the author addresses a broad audience: on the one hand, scholars, but, on the other, policy makers. In fact, the author provides an in-depth comparative analysis of the two most influential liability models in the digital landscape: the European and the American paradigms.’ -- Oreste Pollicino and Federica Paolucci, EU Law Live‘Folkert Wilman invites us to a journey into a virtual world where it is easy to formulate questions, but extremely difficult to answer them. In his analysis he displays remarkable knowledge, coupled with professional experience. . . . His book will definitely contribute to the ongoing discussion not only on both sides of the Atlantic, but in the entire world. It will constitute an extraordinarily valuable point of reference for lawmakers and courts, including, I believe, the Court of Justice.' -- From the Foreword by Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the EU‘The Internet offers countless opportunities for exchanging information and expression, but also entails risks of abuse. In dealing with the responsibility of intermediaries for illegal content, this book scrutinises laws on copyright, anti-terrorism, e-commerce and fundamental rights, in the EU and the US, successfully weaving different experiences and developments into a clear and comprehensive analysis. An insightful and thoughtful work, rich in references to case law, legislative history and legal literature. Obligatory reading for anyone working in the field.’ -- Anna Marcoulli, Judge at the General Court of the EUTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: European Union 2. Art. 14 e-Commerce Directive 3. Art. 15 e-Commerce Directive and recent measures Part II: United States 4. Section 230 CDA 5. Section 512 DMCA Part III: Interests, fundamental rights and private speech regulation 6. Interests at stake 7. Fundamental rights 8. Private speech regulation Part IV: Assessment, recommendations and conclusions 9. Assessment 10. Completing the current regime 11. Towards a double-sided duty of care 12. Conclusions Bibliography Index

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