Digital, IT and Communications law Books

Book SynopsisInformation Technology Law takes a unique socio-legal approach to examining the interaction between the law and other elements of the information society. Murray discusses relevant issues such as governance, free expression, and crime with enthusiasm, and looks forward to future challenges presented by developing technologies.Trade ReviewNicely written, offering a well-structured and stimulating introduction into the topic. * Dr Jonida Milaj-Weishaar - University of Groningen *'It is the definitive UK text--useful for all media and digital technology students even if you're not specifically studying law. * William Merrin - Associate Professor, Swansea University *A clear, comprehensive and concise work on IT law. It explains not only the law, but also the technological backgrounds. * Dr Jan Oster, Leiden University (previous edition) *Table of ContentsPart I: The Information Society 1:: The world of bits 2:: The network of networks 3:: Net neutrality 4:: Regulating the information society Part II: Content and the Information Society 5:: Cyber-speech 6:: Social networking and antisocial conduct 7:: Defamation Part III: Digital Content and Intellectual Property Rights 8:: Intellectual property rights and the information society 9:: Software 10:: Digital creatives and copyright law 11:: Copyright in the digital environment 12:: Copyright infringement in the digital environment 13:: Databases 14:: Branding, trade marks and domain names 15:: Brand identities, search engines, and secondary ma rkets Part IV: E-Commerce 16:: Electronic contracts 17:: Electronic payments and cryptocurrency 18:: Consumer protection Part V: Criminal Activity in the Information Society 19:: Computer misuse 20:: Obscenity in the information society 21:: Crime and law enforcement in the information society Part VI: Data Privacy 22:: Data protection: the legal framework 23:: Data protection: rights and obligations 24:: The international trade in personal data 25:: State surveillance and data retention

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book follows the EU's journey into the digital age, explaining how it uses legislation and policy to tackle challenges such as the abuse of market power by Big Tech companies and the spread of hate speech and disinformation.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of the primary challenges, opportunities and regulatory developments associated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector. It will show that, while AI has the potential to promote a more inclusive and competitive financial system, the increasing use of AI may bring certain risks and regulatory challenges that need to be addressed by regulators and policymakers.After analysing the technological foundations of AI, the book focuses on the use and regulatory challenges of AI in the banking, capital markets and insurance industries. It also analyses, compares and assesses the different strategies and international approaches that have been adopted to address the challenges raised by the use of AI. The book concludes by providing a holistic and cross-sectoral analysis of the use of AI in the financial sector.The comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and industry-relevant approach adopted in Artificial Intelligence in Finance will provide students, practitioners and academics interested in financial markets with a broad understanding of the challenges and opportunities of AI in the financial sector. Additionally, the comparative and policy-oriented approach also adopted in the book will provide regulators and policymakers with innovative ideas and regulatory solutions that will help them address some of the most critical challenges associated with a new data-driven financial system.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction xvii PART I FOUNDATIONS OF AI AND AI GOVERNANCE 1 Foundations of artificial intelligence and machine learning 2 Alfonso Delgado De Molina Rius 2 Explaining explainable AI 19 Richard Zuroff and Nicolas Chapados 3 Harmony in chaos 60 Yeong Zee Kin and Larissa Lim 4 Responsible AI 87 Marcus Bartley Johns, Joy Fuyuno and Dennae Smith PART II OPPORTUNITIES AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES OF AI IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY 5 AI governance frameworks for the banking sector 114 Virginia Torrie and Dominique Payette 6 Machine learning, alternative data, and the regulation of consumer credit markets 142 Nikita Aggarwal 7 AI-based consumer credit underwriting 151 Maayan Perel and Ruth Plato-Shinar PART III OPPORTUNITIES AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES OF AI IN CAPITAL MARKETS 8 The promises and perils of robo-advisers 178 Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez and Wai Yee Wan 9 Regulating AI trading from an AI lifecycle perspective 198 Alessio Azzutti, Wolf-Georg Ringe and H. Siegfried Stiehl PART IV OPPORTUNITIES AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES OF AI IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY 10 Opportunities and use cases of AI in the insurance industry 244 Magdalene Loh and Terence Soo 11 Regulation of the use of artificial intelligence for investment in the insurance industry 271 Christopher Chao-hung Chen PART V CROSS-SECTORAL ISSUES ON THE USE OF AI IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR 12 Regulating artificial intelligence in finance and other regulated industries 294 Douglas W. Arner, Ross P. Buckley, Dirk A. Zetzsche, Brian W. Tang and Lucien J. van Romburg 13 Bias and discrimination in the use of AI in the financial sector 320 Minesh Tanna and William Dunning 14 Interconnectedness and financial stability in the era of artificial intelligence 350 Nydia Remolina Index 368

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Book SynopsisOur society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can''t help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.Trade Review'Gaia Bernstein's Unwired offers a compelling roadmap for tackling one of our most pressing problems: the irresistible pull of technology. Over the course of our lives, we and our children will spend between fifteen and twenty years glued to our screens. As Bernstein shows, though, there are regulatory remedies at hand to help us retain our time and our wellbeing.' Adam Alter, Professor of Marketing and Psychology, NYU Stern School of Business, author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink'In this important and powerful book, Gaia Bernstein shows us how to reclaim our power and our humanity from the Big Tech cartel that have intentionally addicted us to their devices and platforms.' Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D., Author of 'Glow Kids' and 'Digital Madness", former Clinical Professor, Stony Brook Medicine'Unwired is a compelling, accessible, and vital intervention into the overuse of technology. Instead of offering overly simplistic self-help strategies that are doomed to fail, Professor Bernstein rightly targets the manipulative design of technologies and the need for us to work together to hold the tech industry accountable. This book vividly blends personal stories with the latest research and lessons from history to paint a clear picture of our struggle with screens and what it's going to take to improve things. Everyone should read this book.' Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law at Boston University and author of Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies'Inviting and intelligent, Gaia Bernstein's extraordinary book masterfully combines honest personal reflections about her experiences with the creep of digital tech together with a sobering academic account of our collective public struggles to deal with technologies designed to addict, manipulate, and even control our behavior. Throughout, Bernstein maintains a can-do attitude that inspires change.' Brett Frischmann, The Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, Villanova University School of Law'Unwired is a powerful rejoinder to voices that would seek to minimize the threat technological manipulation poses to human freedom. But Gaia Bernstein goes beyond a mere accounting of the harms and proposes systemic changes that can help us take back control. Comprehensive in its scope and clear-eyed in its analysis, Unwired is an indispensable guide to the landscape of digital technology reform. Anyone who cares about the future of technology should read this book.' James Williams, author of Stand Out of Our Light'This trenchant clarion call rings loud and clear.' Publishers Weekly'Mixing expertise and passion, the author sets an agenda to rein in the tech behemoths that have run rampant for years.' Kirkus Reviews'Bernstein is shrewd about the political maneuvers and public relations options available to industries challenged for doing harm to the general welfare. At the same time, she shows that imposing some control or countermeasures … has been possible in the past, and might be in the future.' Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed'Unwired exists to be used: an agenda for social change through legal action. It is a knife, not a brush. But it'll be of much more than academic value to those of us whose parenting years were overshadowed by feelings of guilt, frustration and anxiety, as we fought our hopeless battles, and lost our children to TikTok and Fortnite.' Simon Ings, New Statesman'Bernstein … doubts that addicted users … can will themselves out of their habits. Instead, she argues, regulatory intervention of the supplying corporations will be necessary.' Harvard Magazine, Off the ShelfTable of ContentsPrologue; Part I. The Price of the Illusion of Control; 1. Becoming the Choice-Makers; 2. Addiction, Our Children, Our Bonds; 3. Invisible Chains; Part II. Who Are the Choice Makers? 4. Clouds of Smoke; 5. The Food Wars; 6. The Privacy Phoenix; 7. Lessons from Battling Titans; Part III. Fighting for Choice; 8. The Art of Redesign; 9. The Tools of Awareness; 10. The Ground is Burning; 11. The Achilles Heel; 12. Acupuncture for Change; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisIn this riveting, behind-the-scenes courtroom drama, a brilliant legal team battles corporate greed and government overreach for our fundamental right to control our genes. When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was, How can a corporation own what makes us who we are? Then he discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, tests they desperately needed—all because Myriad Genetics had patented the famous BRCA genes. So he sued them. Jorge L. Contreras, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on human genetics law, has devoted years to investigating the groundbreaking civil rights case known as AMP v. Myriad. In The Genome Defense Contreras gives us the view from inside as Hansen and his team of ACLU lawyers, along with a committed group of activists, scientists, and physicians, take their one-in-a-million case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Contreras interviewed more than a hundred key players involved in all aspects of the case—from judges and policy makers to ethicists and genetic counselors, as well as cancer survivors and those whose lives would be impacted by the decision—expertly weaving together their stories into a fascinating narrative of this pivotal moment in history. The Genome Defense is a powerful and compelling story about how society must balance scientific discovery with corporate profits and the rights of all people.Trade Review“A compelling and thoroughly researched narrative history of a seminal lawsuit.” —The Wall Street Journal “Ably and affectingly detailed . . . This story stands as a guide to the forces that shape an increasingly important industry—and to the vexed influence of patents.” —Nature “The Genome Defense provides an incomparable perspective on a landmark Supreme Court case, and it is a testament to the importance of intellectual property law to humanity’s prosperity.” —Jessica Silbey, author of The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property "Jorge L. Contreras, a law professor at the University of Utah, interviewed nearly 100 lawyers, patients, scientists and policymakers in this behind-the-scenes history of Molecular Pathology vs. Myriad Genetics, a long-shot lawsuit that culminated in a landmark 2013 Supreme Court decision that opened the human genome to the benefit of researchers, cancer patients and everyday Americans." —The New York Times Book Review ("11 New Works of Nonfiction to Read This Season") “Remarkable. Contreras manages to make a book about the lawsuit that ended gene patenting in America read like a thriller. This book will not only inform you and stir your moral outrage, it will keep you on the edge of your seat.”—Ayelet Waldman, author of A Really Good Day “Fascinating . . . Contreras goes behind the scenes with many of the key participants, offering an inside look at the legal strategy and the potential consequences on either side of the final decision.”—Salt Lake City Weekly “Masterfully written.”—Neo.Life “An unflinching critique of the biotech industry's business practices . . . Contreras never presumes that his readers can't keep up, until suddenly a lay reader can likely understand the fundamentals of patent eligibility. That mix makes the book an incredibly accessible and engaging read, which . . . keeps readers from putting it down.” —Law360 “Eye-opening . . . Contreras brings the large cast of case participants to life with vivid prose, and the exciting final spectacle before the Supreme Court is heart-pumping . . . a thorough page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “A superb lesson on patents in general and the grotesque American patent system in particular . . . Contreras assembles a large cast of lawyers, judges, activists, scientists, and patients and engagingly describes four years of tortuous legal action that saw victory in federal court, reversal on appeal, and a final triumph in the Supreme Court . . . Fascinating.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A gripping and important tale of how corporations were patenting our own genes and selling them back to us. Contreras give us front-row-seat access, deft character sketches and crystal-clear explanations of law and science.” —Jordan Fisher Smith, author of Engineering Eden “A remarkable, fast-paced read. Contreras tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the Supreme Court stopped the patenting of the human genome. He does it in such an engaging style that it’s almost like reading a legal thriller.” —Professor Mark A. Lemley, Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology “Both a page-turner full of colorful characters and a profound commentary about how corporate giants use the law to monopolize knowledge—and what we can do about it.”—Orly Lobel, author of You Don't Own Me: The Court Battles that Exposed Barbie's Dark Side “A compelling and thoroughly researched narrative history of a seminal lawsuit.” —The Wall Street Journal “Ably and affectingly detailed . . . This story stands as a guide to the forces that shape an increasingly important industry—and to the vexed influence of patents.” —Nature “The Genome Defense provides an incomparable perspective on a landmark Supreme Court case, and it is a testament to the importance of intellectual property law to humanity’s prosperity.” —Jessica Silbey, author of The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property "Jorge L. Contreras, a law professor at the University of Utah, interviewed nearly 100 lawyers, patients, scientists and policymakers in this behind-the-scenes history of Molecular Pathology vs. Myriad Genetics, a long-shot lawsuit that culminated in a landmark 2013 Supreme Court decision that opened the human genome to the benefit of researchers, cancer patients and everyday Americans." —The New York Times Book Review ("11 New Works of Nonfiction to Read This Season") "In this engaging legal history, Contreras chronicles how an unlikely lawsuit against private companies that have patented human genes led to a Supreme Court decision to open the human genome to researchers and everyday Americans." —The New York Times Book Review (Paperback Row) “Remarkable. Contreras manages to make a book about the lawsuit that ended gene patenting in America read like a thriller. This book will not only inform you and stir your moral outrage, it will keep you on the edge of your seat.”—Ayelet Waldman, author of A Really Good Day “Fascinating . . . Contreras goes behind the scenes with many of the key participants, offering an inside look at the legal strategy and the potential consequences on either side of the final decision.”—Salt Lake City Weekly “Masterfully written.”—Neo.Life “An unflinching critique of the biotech industry's business practices . . . Contreras never presumes that his readers can't keep up, until suddenly a lay reader can likely understand the fundamentals of patent eligibility. That mix makes the book an incredibly accessible and engaging read, which . . . keeps readers from putting it down.” —Law360 “Eye-opening . . . Contreras brings the large cast of case participants to life with vivid prose, and the exciting final spectacle before the Supreme Court is heart-pumping . . . a thorough page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “A superb lesson on patents in general and the grotesque American patent system in particular . . . Contreras assembles a large cast of lawyers, judges, activists, scientists, and patients and engagingly describes four years of tortuous legal action that saw victory in federal court, reversal on appeal, and a final triumph in the Supreme Court . . . Fascinating.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A gripping and important tale of how corporations were patenting our own genes and selling them back to us. Contreras give us front-row-seat access, deft character sketches and crystal-clear explanations of law and science.” —Jordan Fisher Smith, author of Engineering Eden “A remarkable, fast-paced read. Contreras tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the Supreme Court stopped the patenting of the human genome. He does it in such an engaging style that it’s almost like reading a legal thriller.” —Professor Mark A. Lemley, Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology “Both a page-turner full of colorful characters and a profound commentary about how corporate giants use the law to monopolize knowledge—and what we can do about it.”—Orly Lobel, author of You Don't Own Me: The Court Battles that Exposed Barbie's Dark Side

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of China's cyberspace threats and policies, emphasizing the vantage points of China and U.S. on cyber exploitation and the possibilities for more positive coordination.Trade Review"Given the high stakes and enormous gaps between Chinese and American understandings and agendas on cybersecurity, and with the above two chapters as examples, Lindsay and Reveron are certainly justified in concluding that the book "exemplifies" cooperation to improve understanding. It will be worthwhile reading not only for China scholars and cyber-security experts, but also for international relations and communications scholars." --Pacific Affairs "This book's contributors argue that China is not the electronic supervillain it is often thought to be. Despite the regime's hefty investment in digital espionage and cyberwar capabilities, its networks are less secure than those in the United States, the Chinese agencies that make cybersecurity policy are more fragmented than their U.S. counterparts, and the country suffers losses worth close to $1 billion a year because of weak policing of online theft and fraud. China conducts a great deal of industrial espionage, but its enterprises have a hard time filtering and applying the vast amount of data their hackers steal. Looking only at the Chinese side of the relationship, the book does not detail the digital threats that the United States poses to China. But Chinese thinkers believe they are significant, and given China's strategic doctrine of striking first and massively, this creates the risk that in a crisis, Beijing might launch a preemptive cyberattack. The fact that Chinese and Western experts cooperated in this pathbreaking book shows that there is a potential for working together. But there are many obstacles, including the inherent secrecy of the field." -- Foreign Affairs "The US-China relationship is probably the most important in determining the future of cyberspace. Yet despite all the media reporting about Chinese hacking and cyber espionage, we lack a comprehensive picture of what it is China hopes to accomplish in cyberspace and how it copes with its own vulnerability. This is an extremely useful study not only because it brings international relations, intelligence, military, computer science, and China experts together, but also is one of the rare works that includes the contributions of Chinese academics, analysts, and practioners. This book should be read by all who want a greater understanding of China's cybersecurity situation." -- Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations "The 13 articles by 18 Canadian, US, and Chinese specialists ponder much... Every form of contestation, from crime to espionage, is instantly modernized with the preface cyber... Recommended." -- CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction ; China and Cybersecurity: Controversy and Context ; Jon R. Lindsay ; I. ESPIONAGE AND CYBERCRIME ; 1. The Chinese Intelligence Services: Evolution and Empowerment in Cyberspace ; Nigel Inkster ; 2. From Exploitation to Innovation: Acquisition, Absorption, and Application ; Jon R. Lindsay and Tai Ming Cheung ; 3. Investigating the Chinese Online Underground Economy ; Zhuge Jianwei, Gu Lion, Duan Haixin, and Taylor Roberts ; II. MILITARY STRATEGY AND INSTITUTIONS ; 4. From Cyberwarfare to Cybersecurity in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond ; Ye Zheng ; 5. Chinese Writings on Cyber Warfare and Coercion ; Kevin Pollpeter ; 6. The Chinese People's Liberation Army Computer Network Operations Infrastructure ; Mark A. Stokes ; 7. Civil-Military Integration in Cybersecurity: A Study of Chinese Information Warfare Militias ; Robert Sheldon and Joe McReynolds ; III. NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY POLICY ; 8. China's Cybersecurity Situation and the Potential for International Cooperation ; Li Yuxiao and Xu Lu ; 9. Evolving Legal Frameworks for Protecting Internet Privacy in China ; Xu Jinghong ; 10. <"Foreign Hostile Forces>": The Human Rights Dimension of China's Cyber Campaigns ; Sarah McKune ; IV. PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS ; 11. China and Information Security Threats: Policy Responses in the United States ; Fred H. Cate ; Conclusion ; The Rise of China and the Future of Cybersecurity ; Jon R. Lindsay and Derek S. Reveron ; Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book Richard Susskind, a pioneer of rethinking law for the digital age confronts the challenges facing our legal system and the potential for technology to bring much needed change. Drawing on years of experience leading the discussion on conceiving and delivering online justice, Susskind here charts and develops the public debate.Trade ReviewIn summary, Susskind's latest book is another extraordinary contribution to justice reform. It is an engaging work that will hopefully spark debate and reform. It is written with a lively tone and provides much food for thought about what our justice systems could look like now and into the future. * Tania Sourdin, University of Newcastle, Australia, Journal of Law and Society *... remains the most necessary and pressing legal text for every court user given the current climate... is not just for those with the power to effect change, it is for every single user who works in our court system... We have been given a miraculous opportunity to make a hundred years-worth of progress in less than a generation. We all have the duty to make this opportunity count, not just to turn up to work, make our money, and go home. Online Courts must be the foundation for all conversations, immediate and long term, about the future of our justice system. * Joseff Morgan, Counsel *Table of ContentsPART ONE - CONTEXT 1: The case for change 2: Advances in technology 3: Thinking strategically 4: Legal theory of courts 5: Physical, virtual, online hearings 6: Access to justice revisited PART TWO - ARCHITECTURE 7: The vision 8: Online guidance 9: Assisted argument 10: Containment 11: Online resolution by judges 12: Civil, criminal, family disputes 13: Case studies PART THREE - THE CASE AGAINST 14: Economy-class justice 15: Adversarial v investigatory 16: Open justice and fair trial 17: Face-to-face justice 18: Digital exclusion 19: Loss of majesty 20: Public sector technology PART FOUR - THE FUTURE 21: Machine learning and prediction 22: Technology-mediated negotiation 23: Artificial intelligence 24: Telepresence, augmented reality and virtual reality 25: The role for human beings Further Reading

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Book SynopsisSelected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/.Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms and curtail the dominance of a few, yet regulatory responses remain fragmented, with some focused solely on competition while others seek to address issues around harm, privacy, and freedom of expression.Regulating Big Tech condenses the vibrant tech policy debate into a toolkit for the policy maker, legal expert, and academic seeking to address one of the key issues facing democracies today: platform dominance and its impact on society. Contributors explore elements of the toolkit through comprehensive coverage of existing and future policy on data, antitrust, competition, freedom of expression, jurisTrade ReviewSocieties have finally woken up to the threat to democracy posed by the dominance of a small number of tech companies. But to date, the legal and legislative responses to the threat have been disjointed, unimaginative, and in some cases almost incoherent. The shortage of good ideas for bringing digital technology under effective democratic control is palpable and worrying. By assembling a formidable group of thinkers on these questions, Tambini and Moore have not only created the kind of brain trust liberal democracies need at this critical time, but also a primer for policymakers everywhere. * John Naughton, Cambridge University and Observer columnist *The threat to democracy posed by the concentration of power in digital media markets is one of the great challenges of our time. Regulating Big Tech has assembled ideas for change from some of the best thinkers in the world. It is essential reading for anyone wrestling with the topic. * Ben Scott, Executive Director, Reset *Table of ContentsIntroduction Damian Tambini and Martin Moore PART I: Enhancing Competition 1. Reshaping Platform-Driven Digital Markets Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Entsminger, and Rainer Kattel 2. Reforming Competition and Media Law--The German Approach Bernd Holznagel and Sarah Hartmann 3. Overcoming Market Power in Online Video Platforms Eli M. Noam 4. Enabling Community-Owned Platforms--A Proposal for a Tech New Deal Nathan Schneider PART II: Increasing Accountability 5. Obliging Platforms to Accept a Duty of Care Lorna Woods and Will Perrin 6. Minimizing Data-Driven Targeting and Providing a Public Search Alternative Angela Phillips and Eleonora Maria Mazzoli 7. Accelerating Adoption of a Digital Intermediary Tax Elda Brogi and Roberta Maria Carlini PART III: Safeguarding Privacy 8. Treating Dominant Digital Platforms as Public Trustees Philip M. Napoli 9. Establishing Auditing Intermediaries to Verify Platform Data Ben Wagner and Lubos Kuklis 10. Promoting Data for Well-Being While Minimizing Stigma Frank Pasquale Part IV: Protecting Democracy 11. Responding to Disinformation: Ten Recommendations for Regulatory Action and Forbearance Chris Marsden, Ian Brown, and Michael Veale 12. Creating New Electoral Public Spheres Martin Moore 13. Transposing Public Service Media Obligations to Dominant Platforms Jacob Rowbottom PART V: Reforming Governance 14. A Model for Global Governance of Platforms Robert Fay 15. Determining Our Technological and Democratic Future: A Wish List Paul Nemitz and Matthias Pfeffer 16. Reconceptualizing Media Freedom Damian Tambini 17. A New Social Contract for Platforms Victor Pickard Conclusion: Without a Holistic Vision, Democratic Media Reforms May Fail Martin Moore and Damian Tambini

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is strongly recommended for those interested in the intersection of social media and politics and for instructors looking for readily comprehensible articles for their upper-division courses. * J. McQuiston, CHOICE *In this elegant volume, equally valuable to specialists and lay readers, two lifelong scholars of First Amendment jurisprudence gather an array of experts to explore the problems presented by digital technology and their possible solutions. * Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs *Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone have done a great public service by assembling this extraordinary group of contributors to think through the risks to democracy posed by social media and the internet. Protecting our constitutional traditions, in the face of seismic technological change, and the unmooring of democratic foundations is one of the greatest challenges of our times. Yet, what emerges from this volume's thoughtfully constructed collection of essays, and the hard choices made by a commission tasked with synthesizing the many perspectives presented here, is invaluable guidance for what must be done now if we are to preserve meaningful public discourse and our democracy. The fact that so many distinguished leaders from government, academia, the tech industry, and journalism devoted their time to this project underscores the urgent need to chart a new course. * Valerie Jarrett, Former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States *I can think of no better introduction to the highly consequential question of regulating speech on social media. Bollinger and Stone have assembled an outstanding array of authors who, with clarity, felicity, and deep knowledge, cover the many facets of this pressing problem. * Robert Post, , Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School *Events in recent years have made plain the challenges that social media platforms present to our democracy-harmful speech, divisive speech, misinformation, foreign interference, and more. The First Amendment stands as both an ideal and a potential obstacle in addressing these challenges. Bollinger and Stone have enlisted an extraordinary array of leading experts to tackle these issues from all angles. This volume is invaluable for understanding and charting the future of American democracy. * Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Opening Statement Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone Regulating Harmful Speech on Social Media: The Current Legal Landscape and Policy Proposals Andrew J. Ceresney, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Courtney M. Dankworth, and David A. O'Neil Part One: An Overview of the Problem 1 Social Media and First Amendment Fault Lines David A. Strauss: 2 A Deliberate Leap in the Opposite Direction: The Need to Rethink Free Speech Larry Kramer: 3 The Disinformation Dilemma Emily Bazelon: 4 A Framework for Regulating Falsehoods Cass R. Sunstein: Part Two: Reforming Section 5 The Free Speech Industry Mary Anne Franks: 6 The Golden Era of Free Speech Erwin Chemerinsky and Alex Chemerinsky: 7 Section 230 Reforms Sheldon Whitehouse: Part Three: Content Moderation and the Problem of Algorithms 8 Algorithms, Affordances, and Agency Renée DiResta: 9 The Siren Call of Content Moderation Formalism evelyn douek: 10 Free Speech on Public Platforms Jamal Greene: 11 The Limits of Antidiscrimination Law in the Digital Public Sphere Genevieve Lakier: 12 Platform Power, Online Speech, and the Search for New Constitutional Categories Nathaniel Persily: 13 Strategy and Structure: Understanding Online Disinformation and How Commitments to "Free Speech" Complicate Mitigation Approaches Kate Starbird: Part Four: Other Possible Reforms 14 To Reform Social Media, Reform Informational Capitalism Jack M. Balkin: 15 Follow the Money, Back to Front Yochai Benkler: 16 The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants Lawrence Lessig: 17 Social Media, Distrust, and Regulation: A Conversation Newton N. Minow, Nell Minow, Martha Minow, and Mary Minow: 18 Profit Over People: How to Make Big Tech Work for Americans Amy Klobuchar: Report of the Commission Katherine Adams, Martin Baron, Lee C. Bollinger, Hillary Clinton, Jelani Cobb, Russ Feingold, Christina Paxson, Geoffrey R. Stone Concluding Statement Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEveryone is talking about fintech, and they''re usually saying good things. Driverless Finance provides a balance to that conversation, exploring the threats that different fintech innovations pose for our financial system. With in-depth and accessible descriptions of new financial technologies and business models - ranging from distributed ledgers to machine learning, cryptoassets to robo-investing - this book allows readers to think more critically about fintech, and about how the law should respond to it.This book highlights the increased speed, complexity, and coordination inherent in new fintech innovations, and illustrates how these features could come together in a massive financial system failure. It makes the case for a precautionary approach to regulating fintech, erring on the side of caution to avoid a financial crisis that could have irreversible and catastrophic effects for our society. Because neither longstanding regulatory approaches nor experimental new approaches like regulatory sandboxes were designed to address fintech''s systemic risks, this book makes several bold new proposals for regulation designed to make fintech-inspired financial crises less likely. These proposals include new forms of disclosure and supervision, new forms of technological tools (known as suptech), and a new licensing regime for financial technologies. This book finishes by situating its discussion of fintech and financial stability in the context of important debates about innovation, expertise, cybersecurity, privacy, competition, and other pressing issues.Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction Part I: The Case for Precaution Chapter 1: The Case for Precaution Part II: Fintech Threats to Financial Stability Chapter 2: Fintech and Risk Management Chapter 3: Fintech and Capital Intermediation Chapter 4: Fintech and Payments Part III: Regulating Fintech and Financial Stability Chapter 5: Current Approaches to Fintech and Financial Stability Regulation Chapter 6: Precautionary Regulation of Fintech Innovation Chapter 7: The Bigger Picture Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLike many other areas of life, humanitarian practice and thinking are being transformed by information and communications technology. Despite this, the growing digitization of humanitarianism has been a relatively unnoticed dimension of global order. Based on more than seven years of data collection and interdisciplinary research, #Help presents a ground-breaking study of digital humanitarianism and its ramifications for international law and politics.Global problems and policies are being reconfigured, regulated, and addressed through digital interfaces developed for humanitarian ends. #Help analyses how populations, maps, and emergencies take shape on the global plane when given digital form and explores the reorientation of nation states'' priorities and practices of governing around digital data collection imperatives. This book also illuminates how the growing prominence of digital interfaces in international humanitarian work is sustained and shaped by law and policy.#Help revealTrade ReviewWhat happens when the objectives, beneficiaries, and participants of humanitarian activism are framed by digital technologies? When the door to humanitarian relief is opened or closed by algorithms? #Help lays out the distributive effects of recourse to digital interfaces by humanitarian actors: the re-ordering of powers and vulnerabilities between human groups, the routinization of emergencies, and the redirection of political action. This is a hugely interesting, politically relevant, and altogether new analysis of the transformations of the humanitarian imaginary resulting from its integration in the global digital revolution. * Martti Koskenniemi, Emeritus Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights *How does the diffusion of digital interfaces transform the practice, philosophy, and politics of humanitarian work? This essential and richly documented book discusses the normalization of binary thinking and datafication, the rise of new actionable objects and relations, and shifting temporalities and governance models. #Help offers an invaluable perspective that challenges what we thought we knew about how people today ask for help, and how others respond. * Marion Fourcade, Professor of Sociology and Director of Social Science Matrix at the University of California, Berkeley *Philosophically grounded, historically rich, and analytically sharp, this book brings much needed clarity to the complex field of digital humanitarianism. Johns shows how humanitarianism is changing in relation to computational practices, and why this matters for law and politics on a global scale. * Kate Crawford, Research Professor at USC Annenberg and Senior Principal Researcher at MSR New York *As humanitarianism has become a global language meant to represent and alleviate the suffering of the world, Fleur Johns critically explores its latest avatar: digital humanitarianism. Through fascinating case studies of recent tools claiming to characterize populations, map needs, and organize responses, #Help offers an original, rigorous and much-needed analysis of the ambiguous promise of this technological turn in the politics of compassion. * Didier Fassin, Professor at the Collège de France and the Institute for Advanced Study *Johns's work helps us appreciate those transformations with incisive theoretical exploration. * Wendy H. Wong, The American Journal Of International Law *#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order is a characteristically rich, intricate, thoughtful and insightful intervention from one of international lawâs most consistently enlightening contemporary scholars, Fleur Johns. It is a thoroughly enjoyable read and, on its face, a succinct descriptive account, infused throughout with sharp analytical observation,...A good analogy is, perhaps, bindweed: global digital bindweed. * Stephen Humphreys, London Review of International Law *The book is interspersed with 'prospects for doing otherwise',...It is a crucial contribution of the book that it hones its analytical apparatus to pay attention to dissensus and divergence and to keep questions of digital humanitarian futures open. * Claudia Aradau, London Review of International Law *The theoretical offerings of the book can be mobilised and adapted in research attuned to the modes of freedom and safety people create collectively among themselves and against social sorting, detention, violence, policing and its technologies. * Margie Cheesman, London Review of International Law *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Interfaces: New media of humanitarian relation Chapter 2: Maps: Historical snapshots and digital rewriting Chapter 3: Populations: From statistics to data science Chapter 4: Emergencies: Waiting and watching in the palliative present Chapter 5: States: Analogue and digital Chapter 6: Law and policy: Infrastructures of interface Chapter 7: Uses: Using, disusing and misusing digital humanitarian interfaces

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Book SynopsisInformation technology affects all aspects of modern life. From the information shared on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to online shopping and mobile devices, it is rare that a person is not touched by some form of IT every day.Information Technology Law examines the legal dimensions of these everyday interactions with technology and the impact on privacy and data protection, as well as their relationship to other areas of substantive law, including intellectual property and criminal proceedings. Focusing primarily on developments within the UK and EU, this book provides a broad-ranging introduction and analysis of the increasingly complex relationship between the law and IT.Information Technology Law is essential reading for students of IT law and also appropriate for business and management students, as well as IT and legal professionals.Digital formats and resourcesThis edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.- The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks- The online resources include a catalogue of web links to key readings and updates to the law since publication.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition It's a leading book on Information Technology Law offering a detailed account and authoritative insights on fascinating topical issues in easily accessible narrative * Dr Mark Leiser, University of Leiden *Table of ContentsPrivacy, Anonymity, and Data Protection 1: The dead of privacy and the growth of surveillance 2: The emergence of data protection 3: The scope of data protection 4: Supervisory agencies 5: The data protection principles 6: Individual rights and remedies 7: Sectoral aspects of data protection 8: Transborder data flows Part II - Computer-Related Crime 9: National and international responses to computer-related crime 10: Substantive criminal law provisions 11: Virtual criminality 12: Detecting and prosecuting computer crime Part III - Intellectual Property Issues 13: The emergence and forms of intellectual property law 14: Key elements of the patent system 15: Software patents 16: Copyright protection 17: Enforcement issues 18: Protection of databases 19: Design rights 20: Trademark issues 21: Internet domain names Part IV - E-Commerce 22: International and european initiatives in e-commerce 23: Electronic money 24: Contractual issues

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Book SynopsisOur court system is struggling. It is too costly to deliver justice for all but the few, too slow to satisfy those who can access it. Yet the values implicit in disputes being resolved in person, and in public, are fundamental to how we have imagined the fair resolution of disputes for centuries. Could justice be delivered online? The idea has excited and appalled in equal measure, promising to bring justice to all, threatening to strike at the heart of what we mean by justice. With online courts now moving from idea to reality, we are looking at the most fundamental change to our justice system for centuries, but the public understanding of and debate about the revolution is only just beginning.In Online Courts and the Future of Justice Richard Susskind, a pioneer of rethinking law for the digital age, confronts the challenges facing our legal system and the potential for technology to bring much needed change. Drawing on years of experience leading the discussion on conceiving and delivering online justice, Susskind here charts and develops the public debate.Against a background of austerity politics and cuts to legal aid, the public case for online courts has too often been framed as a business case by both sides of the debate. Are online courts preserving the public bottom line by finding efficiencies? Or sacrificing the interests of the many to deliver cut price justice? Susskind broadens the debate by making the moral case (whether online courts are required by principles of justice) and the jurisprudential case (whether online courts are compatible with our understanding of judicial process and constitutional rights) for delivering justice online.Trade ReviewIn summary, Susskind's latest book is another extraordinary contribution to justice reform. It is an engaging work that will hopefully spark debate and reform. It is written with a lively tone and provides much food for thought about what our justice systems could look like now and into the future. * Tania Sourdin, University of Newcastle, Australia, Journal of Law and Society *Table of ContentsPART ONE - CONTEXT 1: The case for change 2: Advances in technology 3: Thinking strategically 4: Legal theory of courts 5: Physical, virtual, online hearings 6: Access to justice revisited PART TWO - ARCHITECTURE 7: The vision 8: Online guidance 9: Assisted argument 10: Containment 11: Online resolution by judges 12: Civil, criminal, family disputes 13: Case studies PART THREE - THE CASE AGAINST 14: Economy-class justice 15: Adversarial v investigatory 16: Open justice and fair trial 17: Face-to-face justice 18: Digital exclusion 19: Loss of majesty 20: Public sector technology PART FOUR - THE FUTURE 21: Machine learning and prediction 22: Technology-mediated negotiation 23: Artificial intelligence 24: Telepresence, augmented reality and virtual reality 25: The role for human beings Further Reading

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating vision of the next information revolution, centered on fiber optic infrastructureTrade Review“A timely and urgent look at how America is sacrificing its digital future, productivity, connectivity, social mobility, entrepreneurial growth, education, and every other public good, thanks to rapacious telcos, scumbag lobbyists, and negligent, cash-hungry politicians. . . . You should be reading this.”—Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing“I thoroughly enjoyed this volume from start to finish and recommend it as an excellent addition to any bookshelf.” —Courteney J. O’Connor, LSE Review of Books “If we can just finish the last mile for fiber to reach into households, Susan Crawford shows, we can unleash a revolution of economic growth, education, and health, and address inequality in a whole new way. Crawford shifts effortlessly from the heights of policy to the literal ground level and shows us the way.”—Anthony Marx, President, New York Public Library "By vividly describing a world filled with fiber-enabled technology as well as the perils and possibilities for achieving it, Susan Crawford has written a playbook for a fairer and more prosperous United States."—Andy Berke, Mayor, Chattanooga, Tennessee“Engaging and accessible … An indictment of national regulatory politics and crony capitalism and a love story about the plucky local governments overcoming the odds to bring their own communities into the twenty-first century. A microcosm of what ails America—and what nonetheless can give us hope.”—Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School

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Book SynopsisThis book critically confronts perceptions that social media has become a âwastelandâ for young people. Law has become preoccupied with privacy, intellectual property, defamation and criminal behaviour in and through social media. In the case of children and youth, this book argues, these preoccupations â whilst important â have disguised and distracted public debate away from a much broader, and more positive, consideration of the nature of social media. In particular, the legal tendency to consider social media as âdangerousâ for young people â to focus exclusively on the need to protect and control their online presence and privacy, whilst tending to suspect, or to criminalise, their use of it â has obscured the potential of social media to help young people to participate more fully as citizens in society. Drawing on sociological work on the construction of childhood, and engaging a wide range of national and international legal material, this book argues that social media may yet offer the possibility of an entirely different â and more progressive âconceptualisation of children and youth.Table of Contents1. Moral panics, childhood, social media and the law 2. Recreating families in social media 3. Social media, young people and political accountability 4. Schools, young people and social media: surveillance and the role model void 5. Working in the online society: social media and young people in new workplace 6. Crime, Identity and Gender: how social media opens new worlds of hope and exploitation 7. ‘Don’t mention the porn’: social media and the rise of the sexual child 8. The New Wasteland: Law, Many Publics and the Loss of Interest

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Book SynopsisFinancial technology is rapidly changing and shaping financial services and markets. These changes are considered making the future of finance a digital one.This Handbook analyses developments in the financial services, products and markets that are being reshaped by technologically driven changes with a view to their policy, regulatory, supervisory and other legal implications. The Handbook aims to illustrate the crucial role the law has to play in tackling the revolutionary developments in the financial sector by offering a framework of legally enforceable principles and values in which such innovations might take place without threatening the acquis of financial markets law and more generally the rule of law and basic human rights.With contributions from international leading experts, topics will include: Policy, High-level Principles, Trends and Perspectives Fintech and Lending Fintech and Payment Services Fintech, Investment and InTable of ContentsPart I Policy, High-level Principles, Trends and Perspectives 1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Financial Sector – Legal-Methodological Challenges of Steering towards a Regulatory ‘Whitebox’ 2. Smart Contracts and Civil Law Challenges: Does Legal Origins Theory Apply? 3. Fintech and the Limits of Financial Regulation: A Systemic Perspective 4. A Regulatory Roadmap for Financial Innovation 5. FinTech and The Law & Economics of Disintermediation 6. Financial Technologies and Systemic Risk – Some General Economic Observations Part II Fintech and Lending 7. Fintech Credit Firms: Prospects and Uncertainties 8. Fintech Credit and Consumer Financial Protection Part III Fintech and Payment Services 9. EU Payment Services Regulation and International Developments 10. Current and Future Liability Concepts in European Financial Market Regulation Part IV Fintech, Investment and Insurance Services 11. Robo Advice: Legal and Regulatory Challenges 12. Insurance and the Legal Challenges of Automated Decisions - an EU Perspective 13. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and FinTech: Market Efficiency and Systemic Risk Part V Fintech, Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Finance 14. FinTech, Financial Inclusion and the UN Sustainable Development Goals 15. Digital Transformation and Financial Inclusion 16. Disintermediation in Fund-raising: Marketplace Investing Platforms and EU Financial Regulation Part VI Cryptocurrencies and Cryptoassets 17. Cryptoassets in Private Law 18. Cryptocurrencies: Development and Perspectives 19. Distributed Ledger Technology and Sovereign Financing 20. Law and Regulation for a Crypto-Market: Perpetuation or Innovation? Part VII Markets and Trading 21. High-Frequency Trading: Regulatory and Supervisory Challenges in the Pursuit of Orderly Markets 22. ‘Trustless’ Distributed Ledgers and Custodial Services Part VIII Regtech and Suptech 23. "Computer Says No": Benefits and Challenges of RegTech 24. Fintech, Regtech and Suptech: Institutional Challenges to the Supervisory Architecture of the Financial Markets

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Book SynopsisWoodrow Hartzog develops the underpinning of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and use digital technologies. Rather than permit exploitation, it would demand encryption, prohibit malicious interfaces that deceive users and leave them vulnerable, and require safeguards against abuses of biometric surveillance.Trade Review[A] smart new book… [W]ill repay the attention of designers, privacy professionals, and anyone who wants to learn how design guided by strengthened laws and regulations might help us emerge from today’s swirl of privacy problems. -- James Barszcz * The Privacy Advisor (International Association of Privacy Professionals website) *Deceptive design nudges, tricks, and goads you into sharing more than you might intend to online, Hartzog argues in his new book… And when you think you’re in control of your own data, you rarely are. -- Ariel Bogle * ABC News (Australia) *Privacy’s Blueprint is a real tour de force, introducing a rigorous structure for multiple dimensions of privacy protections. -- Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and InformationFilled with fascinating examples and written in a lively and accessible way, Privacy’s Blueprint is the definitive chronicle of Privacy by Design. This is one of the most important books about privacy in our times. -- Daniel J. Solove, author of Understanding PrivacyA bold and innovative privacy agenda and a beautifully written book. Hartzog demonstrates how and why privacy design is about power and politics. -- Paul M. Schwartz, author of Information Privacy LawWith deep insight, passion, and humor, Woodrow Hartzog demands that we see what has been in front us all along yet never meaningfully reckoned with. As Hartzog makes clear, we can design apps, social media, and networked clothing (underwear!) with privacy in mind but we need a plan and this book provides it in spades. This is a defining book for our information age and a must read. -- Danielle Keats Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

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Book SynopsisJonathan Lusthaus lifts the veil on cybercriminals in the most extensive account yet of the lives they lead and the vast international industry they have created. Having traveled to hotspots around the world to meet with hundreds of law enforcement agents, security gurus, hackers, and criminals, he charts how this industry based on anonymity works.Trade ReviewIndustry of Anonymity is an accessible and important work on the organization of cybercrime. No other study provides the depth, breadth, and rigor on this difficult-to-reach community. -- David Skarbek, Brown UniversityWith convincing and compelling arguments, impressive empirical work, balanced explanations, and effective writing, Industry of Anonymity is a remarkable contribution to the literature on cybercrime. Criminology and sociology audiences have been waiting for this kind of book. -- Benoît Dupont, University of MontrealIndustry of Anonymity is without doubt the best exploration of the evolution of cybercrime today. Even as someone who has worked in this field for over a decade, I found new insights in every chapter. An absolute must read for any cybercrime investigator. -- Robert McArdle, Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research TeamBased on more than two hundred interviews and numerous field trips to the world's cybercrime hotspots, this is a masterful account of how cybercrime has matured into a large, profit-driven industry. Offering a wealth of data on the informal arrangements that underpin cooperation among anonymous criminals, Lusthaus puts a face to people who normally hide in the shadows. Industry of Anonymity will be the standard reference for years to come. -- Federico Varese, author of Mafia LifeA timely contribution to a classic sociological problem: the one of social order, expressed in the chance of trusted relationships, cooperation, and governance…A substantial contribution to this conversation in a field that is anything but easy to investigate. -- Matías Dewey * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisLooks at the phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. This title traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in Media ecology, Media Ecology Association Winner of the 2010 Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association "Mayer-Schonberger deserves to be applauded and Delete deserves to be read for making us aware of the timelessness of what we created and for getting us to consider what endless accumulation might portend."--Paul Duguid, Times Literary Supplement "In Delete, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger argues that we should be less troubled by the fleetingness of our digital records than by the way they can linger."--Adam Keiper, Wall Street Journal "Mayer-Schonberger raises questions about the power of technology and how it affects our interpretation of time... He draws on a rich body of contemporary psychological theory to argue that both individuals and societies are obliged to rewrite or eliminate elements of the past that would render action in the present impossible."--Fred Turner, Nature "There is no better source for fostering an informed debate on this issue."--Science "A fascinating book."--Clive Thompson, WIRED Magazine "As its title suggests, Delete is about forgetting, more specifically about the demise of forgetting and the resulting perils... [Mayer-Schonberger] comes up with an interesting solution: expiration dates in electronic files. This would stop the files from existing forever and flooding us and the next generations with gigantic piles of mostly useless or even potentially harmful details. This proposal should not be forgotten as we navigate between the urge to record and immortalise our lives and the need to stay productive and sane."--Yadin Dudai, New Scientist "Delete is a useful recap of the various methods that are--or could be--applied to dealing with the consequences of information abundance. It also adds a thought-provoking new twist to the literature."--Richard Waters, Financial Times "Unlike so many books about the internet, which like to hit the panic button then run, Mayer-Schonberger stays around to offer a solution... Mayer-Schonberger deserves to be applauded and Delete deserves to be read for making us aware of the timelessness of what we create and for getting us to consider what endless accumulation might portend."--Paul Duguid, Times Higher Education "This book ... is laid out like an invitation to such a sparring session. There you find the detailed arguments, spread out one by one. Get ready to highlight where you agree, note contradictions and arguments not carried through to their consequential end, and make annotations where you feel a new punch. The session will be worth the effort."--Herbert Burkert, Cyberlaw "A lively, accessible argument ... that all that stored and shared data is a serious threat to life as we know it."--Jim Willse, Newark Star Ledger "A fascinating work of social and technological criticism... The book explores the ways various technologies has altered the human relationship with memory, shifting us from a society where the default was to forget (and consequently forgive) to one where it is impossible to avoid the ramifications of a permanent record."--Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat Gazette "Mayer-Schonberger convincingly claims that our new status quo, the impossibility of forgetting, is severely misaligned to how the human brain works, and to how individuals and societies function... Can anything be done? Delete is an accessible, thoughtful and alarming attempt to start debate."--Karlin Lillington, Irish Times "To argue for more forgetting is counter-intuitive to those who value information, history and transparency, but the writer pursues it systematically and thoroughly."--Richard Thwaites, Canberra Times "Surprising and fascinating... Delete opens a highly useful debate."--Robert Fulford, National Post "Delete offers many scary examples of how the control of personal information stored in e-memory can fall into the wrong hands... Lucid, eminently readable."--Winifred Gallagher, Globe and Mail "Delete is one of a number of smart recent books that gently and eruditely warn us of the rising costs and risks of mindlessly diving into new digital environments--without, however, raising apocalyptic fears of the entire project... [Mayer-Schonberger] is a digital enthusiast with a realistic sense of how we might go very wrong by embracing powerful tools before we understand them."--Siva Vaidhyanathan, Chronicle of Higher Education "In this brief book, Mayer-Schonberger focuses on a unique feature of the digital age: contemporaries have lost the capacity to forget. Many books on privacy frequently mention, but never address in detail, the implications of an almost perfect memory system that digital technology and global networks have brought about... An interesting book, well within the reach of the intelligent reader."--Choice "Clearly the conversation has begun, and Delete is well placed to contribute."--Matthew L. Smith, Identity in the Information SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chapter I: Failing to Forget the "Drunken Pirate" 1 Chapter II: The Role of Remembering and the Importance of Forgetting 16 Chapter III: The Demise of Forgetting--and Its Drivers 50 Chapter IV: Of Power and Time--Consequences of the Demise of Forgetting 92 Chapter V: Potential Responses 128 Chapter VI: Reintroducing Forgetting 169 Chapter VII: Conclusions 196 Afterword to the Paperback Edition 201 Notes 211 Bibliography 231 Index 245

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Book SynopsisThis is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy - the journal of the David Hume Institute.Trade ReviewProvides some useful insights into computers and the law over a broad area. -- E Susan Singleton Provides some useful insights into computers and the law over a broad area.Table of ContentsRacing Forms and the Exhibition(ist) (Mis)Match: Second Thoughts on the Anxiety of Production

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Book SynopsisMedia Divides offers the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the democratic deficits in Canada’s communications law and policy.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate – The State of the ArtIntroduction / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern1 Histories, Contexts, and Controversies / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern2 Implementing Communication Rights / Seán Ó SiochrúPart 2: Communication Rights in Canada – An Assessment3 The Horizontal View / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern4 Media / Marc Raboy5 Access / Leslie Regan Shade6 Internet / William J. McIver Jr.7 Privacy / Leslie Regan Shade8 Copyright / Laura J. MurrayPart 3: Policy Recommendations and Alternative Frameworks9 Fixing Communication Rights in Canada / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern10 Toward a Canadian Right to Communicate / Marc Raboy and Jeremy ShternAppendicesNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisCybercrime is a worldwide problem of rapidly increasing magnitude and, of the countries in the Asia Pacific region, Taiwan and China are suffering most. To prevent the spread of cybercrime, the book argues the case for a `wiki’ approach to cybercrime and a feasible pre-warning system.Trade ReviewProfessor Chang's very thoughtful and impressively researched study of cybercrime in the greater China region is an invaluable contribution to the information and analyses available in this area. It not only provides important, and heretofore unavailable data, about the incidence and nature of cybercrime in this region, it also offers insightful suggestions into how this problem can most effectively be controlled. It belongs in the library of anyone interested in this area.'- Susan Brenner, University of Dayton, US'East Asia is a heartland of the variegated scams of the cybercrime problem. Yao Chung Chang's book is an innovative application of routine activity theory and regulatory theory to cybercrime prevention across the cybergulf between China and Taiwan. The long march through the scams and across the Taiwan Strait is fascinating. Chang leads us to ponder a wiki cybercrime prevention strategy that might work in such treacherous waters.'- John Braithwaite, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface Part I: Setting the Scene 1. Introduction 2. Risk, Routine Activity and Cybercrime Part II: New Crime in a New Field: Cybercrime in Taiwan and China 3. Cybercrime Across the Taiwan Strait Part III: Regulatory Responses Against Cybercrime Across the Taiwan Strait 4. Think Global, Act Glocal — ‘Glocal’ Responses to Cybercrime 5. Cooperation between Taiwan and China Part IV: Preventable Measures: Cybercrime as the Infectious Disease in the Virtual World 6. ‘Wiki’ Crime Prevention — Establishing a Pre-Warning System 7. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explains the rapid rise of China's innovation system and provides a roadmap for the prospects of China's AI development, within the bounds of China's data laws. It will appeal to lawyers, policymakers, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, the global technology industry as well as those interested in China's entrepreneurial ecosystem.Trade Review'In examining 'fuzzy logic' in China's Cyber Security Law, this book provides invaluable insights into how China can be a powerful force in AI and tech innovation. It will have a significant impact on the way in which we conceive of technology regulation in China and elsewhere.' Andrew Godwin, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne'As China navigates tensions between state control and the imperatives of innovation in internet technology, this book offers timely insights. It digs deeply into the 'fuzzy logic' of rules on data localisation, and frames a compelling argument that will help shape scholarly and policy debates in coming years.' Adam K Webb, Co-Director and Professor of Political Science, Hopkins-Nanjing Center'The Chinese tech scene presents us with a bewildering picture of deeply intertwined technological, political and commercial questions and interests. This complexity equally affects Chinese policymaking, particularly in fields related to data and artificial intelligence. This volume aims to enlighten the way by which China gropes its way forward carefully, but decisively.' Rogier Creemers, Assistant Professor, Leiden University'Parasol brings ground-up observations of how China's tech ecosystem really works, and skillfully integrates those with important insights from academia and beyond. He cuts right through the tired debates about whether China can innovate, and deftly illustrates how the 'fuzzy logic' of Chinese tech policy is enabling local experimentation that drives the ecosystem forward. Parasol's book provides excellent intellectual scaffolding for those of us trying to make sense of how Chinese tech got where it is today, and where it's going next.' Matt Sheehan, Fellow, The Paulson Institute'a timely, insightful and well-researched contribution to the literature on China and technology … Parasol's fascinating book is likely to find its way onto postgraduate reading lists and presents ideas and hypotheses that can be tested and expanded in future scholarship.' Tim Stevens, The China QuarterlyTable of ContentsPart I. Historical and Doctrinal Background: 1. Innovating in china's entrepreneurial ecosystem; 2. The extent of fuzzy logic: the tech giants and their 'illegal' legal structure; 3. China's cyber policies: conflict between innovation and restriction; 4. China's data security policies leading to the cyber security law; 5. The cyber security law: fuzzy logic in a touchstone law; Part II. Impact on Artificial Intelligence: 6. the impacts of data localisation on globalised ecosystems and Chinese tech development; 7. How fuzzy provisions in the cyber security law protect data but not data privacy: 'data protection shall not hinder AI'; 8. Why the current state of AI research is perfectly suited to China's fuzzy logic system; 9. Open-source Ai platforms and the cyber security law; Conclusion — effect of data localisation on Chinese AI innovation.

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Book SynopsisThere is an urgent need for responsible governance of Artificial Intelligence systems. This Handbook maps important features of responsible AI governance and demonstrates how to achieve and implement them at the regional, national and international level.Trade Review'… an indispensable and thought-provoking resource for shaping the future of AI and its societal impact.' Matija Franklin, PrometheusTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Foundations of Responsible AI: 1. Artificial Intelligence – Key Technologies and Opportunities Wolfram Burgard; 2. Automating Supervision of AI Delegates Jaan Tallinn and Richard Ngo; 3. Artificial Moral Agents – Conceptual Issues and Ethical Controversy Catrin Misselhorn;4. Risk Imposition by Artificial Agents – The Moral Proxy Problem Johanna Thoma; 5. Artificial Intelligence and its Integration into the Human Lifeworld Christoph Durt; Part II. Current and Future Approaches to AI Governance: 6. Artificial Intelligence and the Past, Present and Future of Democracy Mathias Risse; 7. The New Regulation of the European Union on Artificial Intelligence – Fuzzy Ethics Diffuse into Domestic Law and Sideline International Law Thomas Burri; 8. Fostering the Common Good – An Adaptive Approach Regulating High-Risk AI-Driven Products and Services Thorsten Schmidt and Silja Voeneky; 9. China's Normative Systems for Responsible AI – From Soft Law to Hard Law Weixing Shen and Yun Liu; 10. Towards a Global Artificial Intelligence Charter Thomas Metzinger; 11. Intellectual Debt – With Great Power Comes Great Ignorance Jonathan Zittrain; Part III. Responsible AI Liability Schemes: 12. Liability for Artificial Intelligence – The Need to Address both Safety Risks and Fundamental Rights Risks Christiane Wendehorst; 13. Forward to the Past – A Critical Evaluation of the European Approach to Artificial Intelligence in Private International Law Jan von Hein; Part IV. Fairness and Non-Discrimination in AI Systems: 14. Differences that Make a Difference – Computational Profiling and Fairness to Individuals Wilfried Hinsch; 15. Discriminatory AI and the Law – Legal Standards for Algorithmic Profiling Antje von Ungern-Sternberg; Part V. Responsible Data Governance: 16. Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Data Protection Ralf Poscher; 17. Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Data Protection Law – And Vice Versa Boris Paal; 18. Data Governance and Trust – Lessons from South Korean Experiences Coping with COVID-19 Haksoo Ko, Sangchul Park and Yong Lim; Part VI. Responsible Corporate Governance of AI Systems: 19. From Corporate Governance to Algorithm Governance – Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Corporations and their Executives Jan Lieder; 20. Autonomization and Antitrust – On the Construal of the Cartel Prohibition in the Light of Algorithmic Collusion Stefan Thomas; 21. Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services – New Risks and the Need for More Regulation? Matthias Paul; Part VII. Responsible AI Healthcare and Neurotechnology Governance: 22. Medical AI – Key Elements at the International Level Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor and Johanne Giesecke; 23. 'Hey Siri, How Am I Doing?' – Legal Challenges for Artificial Intelligence Alter Egos in Healthcare Christoph Kroenke; 24. Neurorights – A Human-Rights Based Approach for Governing Neurotechnologies Philipp Kellmeyer; 25. AI-Supported Brain-Computer Interfaces and the Emergence of 'Cyberbilities' Boris Essmann and Oliver Mueller; Part VIII. Responsible AI for Security Applications and in Armed Conflict: 26. Artificial Intelligence, Law and National Security Ebrahim Afsah; 27. Morally Repugnant Weaponry? Ethical Responses to the Prospect of Autonomous Weapons Alex Leveringhaus; 28. On 'Responsible AI' in War – Exploring Preconditions for Respecting International Law in Armed Conflict Dustin A. Lewis.

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