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Internet Regulation and the International Trade Regime (Hardcover): Sun Nanxiang Internet Regulation and the International Trade Regime (Hardcover)
Sun Nanxiang; Contributions by Qiusha Lv
R4,636 Discovery Miles 46 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

i) Several heated topics on internet regulations are examined. ii) The WTO case law method is applied. iii) The author of this book is a professor from one of the top institutes in China. iv) General readers interested in China's cyber law and international public law are also welcome to read this book. v) The Chinese version of this title sold over 3500 copies.

Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Industry (Hardcover): Damian M. Bielicki Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Industry (Hardcover)
Damian M. Bielicki
R4,208 Discovery Miles 42 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 study of how law interacts with AI is more critical now than ever before. This book provides a detailed qualitative exploration into regulatory aspects of AI in industry. Offering a unique focus on current practice and existing trends in a wide range of industries where AI plays an increasingly important role, the work contains legal and technical analysis performed by 15 researchers and practitioners from different institutions around the world to provide an overview of how AI is being used and regulated across a wide range of sectors, including aviation, energy, government, healthcare, legal, maritime, military, music, and others. It addresses the broad range of aspects, including privacy, liability, transparency, justice, and others, from the perspective of different jurisdictions. Including a discussion of the role of AI in industry during the Covid-19 pandemic, the chapters also offer a set of recommendations for optimal regulatory interventions. Therefore, this book will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners interested in technological and regulatory aspects of AI.

Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks - Technology, Law, Literature (Hardcover): Edwin Bikundo, Kieran Tranter Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks - Technology, Law, Literature (Hardcover)
Edwin Bikundo, Kieran Tranter
R4,224 Discovery Miles 42 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the exception and for a while the 'Crown Jurist of the Third Reich'. The Buribunks - ironically for beings that lived only for self-memorialisation - has been mostly lost to history. However, the digital realm, with its emphasis on the informatic traces generated by human doing, and the continual interest in Schmitt's work to explain and criticise contemporary constellations of power, suggests that The Buribunks is a text whose epoch has come. This volume includes the first full translation into English of The Buribunks and a selection of critical essays on the text, its meanings in the digital present, its playing with and criticism of the literary form, and its place within Schmitt's life and work. The Buribunks and the essays provide a complex, critical and provocative invitation to reimagine the relations between the human and their imprint and legacy within archives and repositories. There is a fundamental exploration of what it means to be a being intensely aware of 'writing itself'. This is not just a volume for critical lawyers, literary scholars and the Schmitt literati. It is a volume that challenges a broad range of disciplines, from philosophy to critical data studies, to reflect on the digital present and its assembled and curated beings. It is a volume that provides a set of fantastically located concepts, images and histories that traverse ideas and practices, play and politics, power and possibility.

ICT Law and Internationalisation - A Survey of Government Views (Hardcover): Bert-Jaap Koops, Hielke Hijmans, J. E. J. Prins ICT Law and Internationalisation - A Survey of Government Views (Hardcover)
Bert-Jaap Koops, Hielke Hijmans, J. E. J. Prins
R3,541 Discovery Miles 35 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Legal problems abound in the information society. Electronic commerce, copyright, privacy, illegal and harmful content, taxes, wiretapping governments face an enormous challenge to meet the advent of the Internet and ICT with a flexible, up-to-date, and adequate legal framework. Yet one aspect makes this challenge even more daunting: internationalization. Law is still to a great extent based on nation states, but the information society is above all a borderless and global society. Territoriality and national sovereignty clash with the need for a global approach to address ICT-law issues. Should states leave everything to the global market, or should they intervene to protect vital national interests? If they create regulations, should these reflect the rules of the physical world? How can one enforce national rules in a world where acts take place somewhere in Cyberspace? This text presents the positions on these issues of the governments of the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK, and the US, as well as of international organisations. How do they think about co-regulation, law enforcement, harmonization, international co-operation, and alternative dispute resolution? How do they deal with applicable law and online contracts, privacy, international liability of Internet providers, and electronic signatures? What are the implications of the European Electronic Commerce Directive and the draft Crime in Cyberspace convention? Any legal framework that is to fit the global information society must take into account internationalization. This volume shows to what extent governments are meeting this challenge.

Financial Crime and Gambling in a Virtual World - A New Frontier in Cybercrime (Hardcover): Clare Chambers-Jones Financial Crime and Gambling in a Virtual World - A New Frontier in Cybercrime (Hardcover)
Clare Chambers-Jones; As told to Henry Hillman
R2,822 Discovery Miles 28 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Virtual currencies, particularly crypt-currencies, have been identified as potential money laundering and terrorism financing instruments due to their ability to transfer money anonymously and instantaneously over the globe. Governments and regulators have also recognized the need to more closely monitor and track virtual currency purchases and accounts to avoid the industry being exploited for money laundering or terrorism financing purposes, as explained in this book. The broad overview of various international legal approaches attempting to address this issue would be a great resource for legal and anti-money laundering or counter terrorism financing graduate students, scholars and practitioners interested in virtual currencies research.' - Raymond Choo, University of South Australia'This book is a comprehensive, highly detailed review of cybercrime and the issues raised by gambling in virtual environments. It makes an excellent contribution to the evolving discussion about the risks and controls relating to these activities. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in financial crime and virtual environments from an international perspective.' - Liz Falconer, University of the West of England, UK In this unique book, the authors examine the relationship between real world legislation and new advancements in technology, showing how this can lead to loopholes in legislative protection. They draw on empirical research to highlight the jurisprudential issues relating to economic internet crime and digital currencies. Advancements in technology have seen gambling behavior transverse a new path. The law has not kept pace with such advances, leaving grey areas of concern undiscussed and unregulated.The authors provide a critical discussion on laws relating to gambling in virtual worlds, commenting that terms such as 'virtual' or fantasy are unhelpful in promoting effective legislation. The discussion reveals how virtual world gambling can lead on to other criminal acts within virtual worlds, and specifically examines the notion of cybercrime, economic internet crime and the problems associated with digital currencies. The book concludes by presenting the case for joined up national and international legislation to tackle virtual world crimes effectively. This distinctive study will appeal to researchers and advanced students with an interest in cybercrime, economic internet crime and virtual economies. Practitioners, policy-makers and law enforcement officers will find this book informative in promoting suitable legislation to encompass new technologies in economic crime. Contents: 1. Introduction to Virtual Worlds and Gambling 2. Cybercrime Critical Literature Review 3. Global and Virtual Gambling Legislation 4. International Measures Regulating Online Gambling 5. Global Regulation on Financial Crime 6. Digital Currencies and Financial Crime Conclusion and Recommendations Index

Cryptocurrencies and the Regulatory Challenge (Hardcover): Allan C. Hutchinson Cryptocurrencies and the Regulatory Challenge (Hardcover)
Allan C. Hutchinson
R4,205 Discovery Miles 42 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 social and economic behaviour. This challenge is particularly acute in the realm of technology and its profound ramifications for social and economic behaviour. The innovative Techno-Age not only offers fresh ways of handling old problems, but also throws up entirely new problems; traditional ways of thinking about and responding to these old and new problems and their optimal resolution are no longer as tenable as many once thought. One such example is the burgeoning world of cryptocurrencies - this peer-to-peer digital network presents a profound challenge to the status quo of the financial services sector, to the established modes of state-backed fiat currency, and to the regulatory authority and reach of law. Taken together, these related challenges demand the urgent attention of jurists, lawyers and law reformers. It is the future and relevance of legal regulation as much as cryptocurrency that is at stake. This book proposes an approach to regulating cryptocurrency that recognises and retains its innovative and transformative potential, but also identifies and deals with some of its less appealing qualities and implications.

Digital Totalitarianism - Algorithms and Society (Hardcover): Michael Filimowicz Digital Totalitarianism - Algorithms and Society (Hardcover)
Michael Filimowicz
R1,574 Discovery Miles 15 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Digital Totalitarianism: Algorithms and Society focuses on important challenges to democratic values posed by our computational regimes: policing the freedom of inquiry, risks to the personal autonomy of thought, NeoLiberal management of human creativity, and the collapse of critical thinking with the social media fueled rise of conspiranoia. Digital networks allow for a granularity and pervasiveness of surveillance by government and corporate entities. This creates power asymmetries where each citizen's daily 'data exhaust' can be used for manipulative and controlling ends by powerful institutional actors. This volume explores key erosions in our fundamental human values associated with free societies by covering government surveillance of library-based activities, cognitive enhancement debates, the increasing business orientation of art schools, and the proliferation of conspiracy theories in network media. Scholars and students from many backgrounds, as well as policy makers, journalists and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to questions of totalitarian tendencies encompassing research from Communication, Rhetoric, Library Sciences, Art and New Media.

Systemic Bias - Algorithms and Society (Hardcover): Michael Filimowicz Systemic Bias - Algorithms and Society (Hardcover)
Michael Filimowicz
R1,631 Discovery Miles 16 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Systemic Bias: Algorithms and Society looks at issues of computational bias in the contexts of cultural works, metaphors of magic and mathematics in tech culture, and workplace psychometrics. The output of computational models is directly tied not only to their inputs but to the relationships and assumptions embedded in their model design, many of which are of a social and cultural, rather than physical and mathematical, nature. How do human biases make their way into these data models, and what new strategies have been proposed to overcome bias in computed products? Scholars and students from many backgrounds, as well as policy makers, journalists, and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to inquiry into algorithmic bias encompassing research from Communication, Art, and New Media.

Legal Data and Information in Practice - How Data and the Law Interact (Hardcover): Sarah A. Sutherland Legal Data and Information in Practice - How Data and the Law Interact (Hardcover)
Sarah A. Sutherland
R4,219 Discovery Miles 42 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Legal Data and Information in Practice provides readers with an understanding of how to facilitate the acquisition, management, and use of legal data in organizations such as libraries, courts, governments, universities, and start-ups. Presenting a synthesis of information about legal data that will furnish readers with a thorough understanding of the topic, the book also explains why it is becoming crucial that data analysis be integrated into decision-making in the legal space. Legal organizations are looking at how to develop data-driven insights for a variety of purposes and it is, as Sutherland shows, vital that they have the necessary skills to facilitate this work. This book will assist in this endeavour by providing an international perspective on the issues affecting access to legal data and clearly describing methods of obtaining and evaluating it. Sutherland also incorporates advice about how to critically approach data analysis. Legal Data and Information in Practice will be essential reading for those in the law library community who are based in English-speaking countries with a common law tradition. The book will also be useful to those with a general interest in legal data, including students, academics engaged in the study of information science and law.

Technology, Sovereignty and International Law (Hardcover): Francis Lyall Technology, Sovereignty and International Law (Hardcover)
Francis Lyall
R4,216 Discovery Miles 42 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The dogma of the sovereignty of the state, deriving from the Peace of Westphalia, underpins much of the modern-day international system. However, developments in recent technology have led this ideology to depart from reality. Viewing state sovereignty through the prism of public international law, the book will begin with an overview of the settlement of Westphalia, how it has influenced international documents ever since, and how the advantages of centralised decisions came to be perceived. By surveying the Law of the Sea, Maritime Law, Air and Aviation, Telecommunications, Postal Services, Space Law and Mensuration, the book demonstrates how, in each, the interplay between state sovereignty and developing technologies have caused significant legal change. Some changes, Lyall argues, such as international measures of time and geography, have been born out of convenience, facilitated by technology developed for the purpose. Other areas of change developed out of a desire to reconcile conflicts or harmonise necessary state regulation. The book analyses the reasons behind these changes and discusses the ongoing attempts to balance state equality, measures adopted by new institutions to secure comprehensive representation. It ends by looking to the future of state sovereignty in an increasingly globalised world. The book is of use to any student or scholar interested in policy making, international law and international affairs, both legal and scientific, as well as those looking at legal administrative issues and government officiation.

Your Boss Is an Algorithm - Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour (Hardcover): Antonio Aloisi, Valerio De Stefano Your Boss Is an Algorithm - Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour (Hardcover)
Antonio Aloisi, Valerio De Stefano
R1,920 Discovery Miles 19 200 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

What effect do robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the world of work? Using case studies and examples from across the EU, the UK, and the US, this book provides a compass to navigate this technological transformation as well as the regulatory options available, and proposes a new map for the era of radical digital advancements. From platform work to the gig-economy and the impact of artificial intelligence, algorithmic management, and digital surveillance on workplaces, technology has overwhelming consequences for everyone's lives, reshaping the labour market and straining social institutions. Contrary to preliminary analyses forecasting the threat of human work obsolescence, the book demonstrates that digital tools are more likely to replace managerial roles and intensify organisational processes in workplaces, rather than opening the way for mass job displacement. Can flexibility and protection be reconciled so that legal frameworks uphold innovation? How can we address the pervasive power of AI-enabled monitoring? How likely is it that the gig-economy model will emerge as a new organisational paradigm across sectors? And what can social partners and political players do to adopt effective regulation? Technology is never neutral. It can and must be governed, to ensure that progress favours the many. Digital transformation can be an essential ally, from the warehouse to the office, but it must be tested in terms of social and political sustainability, not only through the lenses of economic convenience. Your Boss Is an Algorithm offers a guide to explore these new scenarios, their promises, and perils.

EU Internet Law - Regulation and Enforcement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou, Philippe Jougleux, Christiana... EU Internet Law - Regulation and Enforcement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou, Philippe Jougleux, Christiana Markou, Thalia Prastitou
R6,473 Discovery Miles 64 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an overview of recent and future legal developments concerning the digital era, to examine the extent to which law has or will further evolve in order to adapt to its new digitalized context. More specifically it focuses on some of the most important legal issues found in areas directly connected with the Internet, such as intellectual property, data protection, consumer law, criminal law and cybercrime, media law and, lastly, the enforcement and application of law. By adopting this horizontal approach, it highlights - on the basis of analysis and commentary of recent and future EU legislation as well as of the latest CJEU and ECtHR case law - the numerous challenges faced by law in this new digital era. This book is of great interest to academics, students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers specializing in Internet law, data protection, intellectual property, consumer law, media law and cybercrime as well as to judges dealing with the application and enforcement of Internet law in practice.

Intellectual Property Protection for AI-generated Creations - Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan (Hardcover): Ana... Intellectual Property Protection for AI-generated Creations - Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan (Hardcover)
Ana Ramalho
R4,208 Discovery Miles 42 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the intersection between artificial intelligence and two intellectual property rights: copyright and patents. The increasing use of artificial intelligence for generating creative and innovative output has an impact on copyright and patent laws around the world. The book aims to map and analyse that impact. The author considers how artificial intelligence systems may aid, or in some cases substitute for, human creators and inventors in the creative process. It is from this angle that the copyright and patent regimes in four jurisdictions (Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan) are investigated in depth. The author describes how these jurisdictions look at works and inventions generated through a process where artificial intelligence is present or prevalent, and examines how copyright and patent regimes should adapt to the reality of artificially intelligent creators and inventors. As the use of artificial intelligence to generate creative and innovative products becomes more common, this book will be a valuable resource to researchers, academics and policy makers alike.

The Right to Privacy Revisited - Different International Perspectives (Hardcover): Aysem Diker Vanberg, OEzgur Heval Cinar The Right to Privacy Revisited - Different International Perspectives (Hardcover)
Aysem Diker Vanberg, OEzgur Heval Cinar
R4,210 Discovery Miles 42 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the right to privacy in the digital age with a view to see how it is implemented across the globe in different jurisdictions. The right to privacy is one of the rights enshrined in international human rights law. It has been a topic of interest for both academic and non-academic audiences around the world. However, with the increasing digitalisation of modern life, protecting one's privacy has become more complicated. Both state and non-state organisations make frequent interventions in citizens' private lives. This edited volume aims to provide an overview of recent development pertaining to the protection of the right to privacy in the different judicial systems such as the European, South Asian, African and Inter-American legal systems. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Biometrics, Surveillance and the Law - Societies of Restricted Access, Discipline and Control (Paperback): Sara Smyth Biometrics, Surveillance and the Law - Societies of Restricted Access, Discipline and Control (Paperback)
Sara Smyth
R1,297 Discovery Miles 12 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The use of biometric identification systems is rapidly increasing across the world, owing to their potential to combat terrorism, fraud, corruption and other illegal activities. However, critics of the technology complain that the creation of an extensive central register of personal information controlled by the government will increase opportunities for the state to abuse citizens. There is also concern about the extent to which data about an individual is recorded and kept. This book reviews some of the most current and complex legal and ethical issues relating to the use of biometrics. Beginning with an overview of biometric systems, the book goes on to examine some of the theoretical underpinnings of the surveillance state, questioning whether these conceptual approaches are still relevant, particularly the integration of ubiquitous surveillance systems and devices. The book also analyses the implementation of the world's largest biometric database, Aadhaar, in detail. Additionally, the identification of individuals at border checkpoints in the United States, Australia and the EU is explored, as well as the legal and ethical debates surrounding the use of biometrics regarding: the war on terror and the current refugee crisis; violations of international human rights law principles; and mobility and privacy rights. The book concludes by addressing the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by private-sector entities such as Axciom and Facebook, and government use of these tools to profile individuals. By examining the major legal and ethical issues surrounding the debate on this rapidly emerging technology, this book will appeal to students and scholars of law, criminology and surveillance studies, as well as law enforcement and criminal law practitioners.

The Patentability of Software - Software as Mathematics (Paperback): Anton Hughes The Patentability of Software - Software as Mathematics (Paperback)
Anton Hughes
R1,299 Discovery Miles 12 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the question of whether software should be patented. It analyses the ways in which the courts of the US, the EU, and Australia have attempted to deal with the problems surrounding the patentability of software and describes why it is that the software patent issue should be dealt with as a patentable subject matter issue, rather than as an issue of novelty or nonobviousness. Anton Hughes demonstrates that the current approach has failed and that a fresh approach to the software patent problem is needed. The book goes on to argue against the patentability of software based on its close relationship to mathematics. Drawing on historical and philosophical accounts of mathematics in pursuit of a better understanding of its nature and focusing the debate on the conditions necessary for mathematical advancement, the author puts forward an analytical framework centred around the concept of the useful arts. This analysis both explains mathematics', and therefore software's, nonpatentability and offers a theory of patentable subject matter consistent with Australian, American, and European patent law.

Online Misogyny as Hate Crime - A Challenge for Legal Regulation? (Paperback): Kim Barker, Olga Jurasz Online Misogyny as Hate Crime - A Challenge for Legal Regulation? (Paperback)
Kim Barker, Olga Jurasz
R749 Discovery Miles 7 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The ideal of an inclusive and participatory Internet has been undermined by the rise of misogynistic abuse on social media platforms. However, limited progress has been made at national - and to an extent European - levels in addressing this issue. In England and Wales, the tackling of underlying causes of online abuse has been overlooked because the law focuses on punishment rather than measures to prevent such abuses. Furthermore, online abuse has a significant impact on its victims that is underestimated by policymakers. This volume critically analyses the legal provisions that are currently deployed to tackle forms of online misogyny, and focuses on three aspects; firstly, the phenomenon of social media abuse; secondly, the poor and disparate legal responses to social media abuses; and thirdly, the similar failings of hate crime to tackle problems of online gender-based abuses. This book advances a compelling argument for legal changes to the existing hate crime, and communications legislation.

Law, Technology and Cognition - The Human Element in Online Copyright Infringement (Paperback): Hayleigh Bosher Law, Technology and Cognition - The Human Element in Online Copyright Infringement (Paperback)
Hayleigh Bosher
R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book considers a new approach to online copyright infringement. Rather than looking at the subject within a purely technological context, it provides legal analysis from a human perspective. This book highlights that there are three key instances in which the capacity of a human mind intersects with the development of copyright regulation: (1) the development of copyright statutory law; (2) the interpretation of the copyright statutory law the judiciary; and (3) human interaction with new technology. Using a novel framework for constructing digital perspectives, the author, Dr Hayleigh Bosher, analyses the laws relating to online copyright infringement. She provides insights into why the law appears as it does, shedding light on the circumstances of how it came to pass and demonstrates a clear malfunction in the interpretation and application of copyright law to online activities that derives from the disconnect between the technological and the human perspectives. The book proposes putting the human element back into copyright analysis to enable the return of reason where it has been lost, and provide a clearer, more consistent and fair legal regulation of online copyright infringement. Law, Technology and Cognition: The Human Element in Online Copyright Infringement will be of interest to students, academics, researchers, as well as practitioners.

The Right to be Forgotten - A Canadian and Comparative Perspective (Paperback): Ignacio Cofone The Right to be Forgotten - A Canadian and Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
Ignacio Cofone
R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exploring the evolution of the right to be forgotten, its challenges, and impacts on privacy, reputation, and online expression, this book lays out the current state of the law on the right to be forgotten in Canada and in the international context while addressing the broader theoretical tensions at the core of the right to be forgotten.

Cyber Law and Ethics - Regulation of the Connected World (Hardcover): Mark Grabowski, Eric P Robinson Cyber Law and Ethics - Regulation of the Connected World (Hardcover)
Mark Grabowski, Eric P Robinson
R6,326 Discovery Miles 63 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Offers the most accessible overview of the topic currently available. Suitable for students coming to the topic without a law background. The authors have diverse backgrounds in academia, journalism and practice, and present the subject clearly and dynamically.

The GDPR Challenge - Privacy, Technology, and Compliance in an Age of Accelerating Change (Hardcover): Amie Taal The GDPR Challenge - Privacy, Technology, and Compliance in an Age of Accelerating Change (Hardcover)
Amie Taal
R2,649 Discovery Miles 26 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A must have book on how GDPR is actively working in the privacy, compliance and technology space. Gain a clear understanding of GDPR requirements and recognise opportunities to reshape your data privacy compliance programs. Learn unique techniques to avoid GDPR non-compliance in the third and fourth industrial revolution era. A practical guide to providing great insights on data privacy challenges and compliance with invaluable practical approaches. Demonstrates data privacy legislation differences and similarities in multi-jurisdictions and how to man oeuvre the minefield of privacy successfully.

Digital Lawyering - Technology and Legal Practice in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Emma Jones, Francine Ryan, Ann Thanaraj,... Digital Lawyering - Technology and Legal Practice in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Emma Jones, Francine Ryan, Ann Thanaraj, Terry Wong
R4,254 Discovery Miles 42 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Combines academic rigour with case studies and activities designed to aid learning Suitable for courses both in the UK and internationally, and it uses international examples

Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology - US Law and Regulation (Hardcover): Daniel T. Stabile, Kimberly A. Prior, Andrew M.... Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology - US Law and Regulation (Hardcover)
Daniel T. Stabile, Kimberly A. Prior, Andrew M. Hinkes
R5,162 Discovery Miles 51 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This textbook examines the legal and regulatory approaches to digital assets and related technology taken by United States regulators. As cryptoassets and other blockchain applications mature, and regulatory authorities work hard to keep pace, Daniel Stabile, Kimberly Prior and Andrew Hinkes invite students to consider the legal approaches, challenges and tension points inherent in regulating these new products and systems. The authors explore the attempts to apply securities laws and money transmission regulation, the growth of smart contracts, the taxation of digital assets, and the intersection of digital assets and criminal law. This innovative and unique textbook features: Commentary and analysis by three leading attorneys engaged with the regulation of digital assets and blockchain technology, offering practical, real-world acumen A comprehensive overview of the origins, key features and mechanisms of blockchain technology, as well as a broad intimation of the divisive debates that will shape the future of digital assets, to guarantee a thorough introduction to the topic for students Excerpts of authorities and other materials from key regulators, including the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodities Futures Trade Commission, and the Internal Revenue Service, to add insight and nuance to classroom discussions. In this, the first textbook of its kind, students of law, business, or technology will find crucial insights into the law and regulation of blockchain and a comprehensive overview of significant public debates on the topic.

Internet Governance - Origins, Current Issues, and Future Possibilities (Hardcover): Roy Balleste Internet Governance - Origins, Current Issues, and Future Possibilities (Hardcover)
Roy Balleste
R2,626 Discovery Miles 26 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Internet Governance: Origins, Current Issues, and Future Possibilities deals with Internet governance and includes computer history, Internet beginnings, institutions and stakeholders, proposed models of governance, and human rights. The concept of Internet governance covers an exceptionally complex and rapidly changing field of norms and rules. Its origins and conflicts engage many disciplines and give rise to technical standards with contributions from a wide range of stakeholders. At the same time, the Internet has increasingly become the dominant reality for all the information processing industries. The ultimate goal of the book is to establish a foundation for identifying a new model of governance for the Internet. In doing so, the book honors the efforts of previous scholars who have considered and proposed other models for the governance of the Internet. Among its aims, the book is intended as an introduction for the novice to the subject of internet governance. The first two chapters offer a historical foundation of the institutions and the debate. The next two chapters discuss the evolution of that debate over the last twenty years. The final two discuss the present and future ramifications of the debate and include the author's attempts to sketch a practical plan for a new concept of Internet governance. This book provides an introductory, multidisciplinary account of the forces at work in the evolving concept of internet governance for scholars in the information studies fields, including computer, information and library science. It should also be useful for scholars in the fields of international law, international relations, diplomacy studies and political science.

Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses (Paperback): Maura Conway, Stuart MacDonald Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses (Paperback)
Maura Conway, Stuart MacDonald
R1,300 Discovery Miles 13 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses provides a unique examination of Islamic State's online activity at the peak of its "golden age" between 2014 and 2017 and evaluates some of the principal responses to this phenomenon. Featuring contributions from experts across a range of disciplines, the volume examines a variety of aspects of IS's online activity, including their strategic objectives, the content and nature of their magazines and videos, and their online targeting of females and depiction of children. It also details and analyses responses to IS's online activity - from content moderation and account suspensions to informal counter-messaging and disrupting terrorist financing - and explores the possible impact of technological developments, such as decentralised and peer-to-peer networks, going forward. Platforms discussed include dedicated jihadi forums, major social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and newer services, including Twister. Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses is essential reading for researchers, students, policymakers, and all those interested in the contemporary challenges posed by online terrorist propaganda and radicalisation. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.

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