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By Martin Ebers, Karin Sein
August 16, 2024
This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in law and technology, analyzing the privacy issues raised by new data-driven technologies. Highlighting the challenges that technology poses to existing EU data protection laws, the book assesses whether current legal frameworks are fit...
By Edoardo Celeste
May 27, 2024
Investigating the impact of digital technology on contemporary constitutionalism, this book offers an overview of the transformations that are currently occurring at constitutional level, highlighting their link with ongoing societal changes. It reconstructs the multiple ways in which ...
By Guido Noto La Diega
May 27, 2024
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 increasing significance of ...
By Rostam J. Neuwirth
May 27, 2024
AI in combination with other innovative technologies promises to bring unprecedented opportunities to all aspects of life. These technologies, however, hold great dangers, especially for the manipulation of the human mind, which have given rise to serious ethical concerns. Apart from some sectoral ...
By Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Paul De Hert
March 19, 2024
EU regulatory initiatives concerning technology-related topics have spiked over the past few years. On the basis of its Priorities Programme, which is focused on making Europe ‘Fit for the Digital Age’, the European Commission has been busily releasing new texts aimed at regulating a number of ...
By Allan C. Hutchinson
January 29, 2024
As a social process that places great stock in its stability and predictability, law does not deal easily or well with change. In a modern world that is in a constant and rapid state of flux, law is being placed under considerable stress in its efforts to fulfill its task as a primary regulator of ...
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By Damian M. Bielicki
January 29, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has augmented human activities and unlocked opportunities for many sectors of the economy. It is used for data management and analysis, decision making, and many other aspects. As with most rapidly advancing technologies, law is often playing a catch up role so the...
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By Matthias C. Kettemann, Alexander Peukert, Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann
January 29, 2024
The Internet is not an unchartered territory. On the Internet, norms matter. They interact, regulate, are contested and legitimated by multiple actors. But are they diverse and unstructured, or are they part of a recognizable order? And if the latter, what does this order look like? This collected ...
By Ignas Kalpokas, Julija Kalpokienė
January 26, 2023
The metaverse seems to be on everybody’s lips – and yet, very few people can actually explain what it means or why it is important. This book aims to fill the gap from an interdisciplinary perspective informed by law and media and communications studies. Going beyond the optimism emanating from ...
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By Maria Tzanou
January 09, 2023
The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart ...
By Dominika Harasimiuk, Tomasz Braun
January 09, 2023
Exploring potential scenarios of artificial intelligence regulation which prevent automated reality harming individual human rights or social values, this book reviews current debates surrounding AI regulation in the context of the emerging risks and accountabilities. Considering varying regulatory...
By Eduard Fosch-Villaronga
November 20, 2019
The integration of robotic systems and artificial intelligence into healthcare settings is accelerating. As these technological developments interact socially with children, the elderly, or the disabled, they may raise concerns besides mere physical safety; concerns that include data protection, ...