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Author Noto La Diega, Guido, author.

Title Internet of things and the law : legal strategies for consumer-centric smart technologies / Guido Noto La Diega
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 378 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge research in the law of emerging technologies
Routledge research in the law of emerging technologies.
Contents Introduction -- IoT law : obstacles and alternatives in the regulation of a non-binary socio-technological phenomenon -- The internet of spying sex toys, killer petrol stations, and manipulative toasters : a view of private ordering from the contractual quagmire -- The internet of contracts : the tension between consumer contract laws and IoT power imbalance -- The internet of vulnerabilities : tackling human and product vulnerabilities through non-contractual consumer laws -- The internet of loos, the General Data Protection Regulation, and digital dispossession under surveillance capitalism -- The internet of things (you don't own) under bourgeois law : an integrated tactic to rebalance intellectual property -- Conclusion: When the law fails us : the commons for a collectivised and open IoT
Summary "Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the legal issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). For decades, the decreasing importance of tangible wealth and power - and the corresponding increasing significance of their disembodied counterparts - has been the subject of much legal analysis. For some time now, legal scholars have grappled with how laws drafted for tangible property and pre-digital 'offline' technologies can cope with dematerialisation, digitalisation, and the internet. As dematerialisation continues, this book aims to illuminate the opposite movement: re-materialisation, namely the return of data, knowledge, and power within a physical 'smart' world. This move frames the book's central question: can the law steer re-materialisation in a human-centric and societally beneficial direction? To answer it, the book focuses on the IoT, the socio-technological phenomenon that is primarily responsible for this shift. After a thorough analysis of how existing laws can be interpreted to empower IoT end-users, Noto La Diega leaves us with the fundamental question of what happens when the law fails us and concludes with a call for collective resistance against 'smart' capitalism"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Dr Guido Noto La Diega (he/they) is an award-winning Scotland-based Sicily-born academic with a passion for law and technology. They are Associate Professor of Intellectual Property and Privacy Law at the University of Stirling, Faculty of Arts and Humanities. At Stirling, Noto La Diega leads the Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network SCOTLIN (Scottish Law and Innovation Network); is Deputy Chair of the Faculty's Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee; and carries out research at the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance, and Privacy (CRISP). Currently, they are leading the AHRC-DfG-funded international research project 'From Smart Technologies to Smart Consumer Laws: Comparative Perspectives from Germany and the United Kingdom', in partnership with the universities of Osnabrück, Warwick, and Bonn. Outside of Stirling, Noto La Diega is Member of the European Commission's Expert Group on AI and Data in Education and Training, Fellow of the Nexa Center for Internet and Society, Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, and Co-Convenor of the Open Section of the Society of Legal Scholars, the oldest and largest society of law academics in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Noto La Diega's main expertise is in Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, robotics, and blockchain. Their work is animated by the conviction that the law should be pivotal to human-centric, and socially just sustainable technologies
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2022)
Subject Internet of things -- Law and legislation.
Consumer protection -- Law and legislation.
Technology and law -- Social aspects
LAW -- General.
LAW -- Contracts.
LAW -- Intellectual Property -- Copyright.
Consumer protection -- Law and legislation.
Internet of things -- Law and legislation.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022002831
ISBN 9780429468377
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