Internet of Things and the Law
Language: English
Amazon Echo Bluetooth Composite Things Contracting Cyber-risks Faulty products Impression Products Inc. v. Lexmark International Law Liability M2M NFC Netflix Law Patenting Product liability RFID Spreadex Ltd v Cochrane The Internet of Things Trade secrets UK Consumer Rights Act 2015 computer-implemented inventions concept of product consumer protection cross-border portability of online content services cybersecurity data portability data protection foreseeability insurance intellectual property rights jurisdiction liability allocation negligence non-personal data online content services privacy things of danger tortious liability transparency
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: Oct 14, 2022
Description:
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 their disembodied counterparts – has been the subject of much legal research. For some time now, legal scholars have grappled with how laws drafted for tangible property and predigital ‘offline’ technologies can cope with dematerialisation, digitalisation, and the internet. As dematerialisation continues, this book aims to illuminate the opposite movement: rematerialisation, namely, the return of data, knowledge, and power within a physical ‘smart’ world. This development frames the book’s central question: can the law steer rematerialisation in a human-centric and socially just direction? To answer it, the book focuses on the IoT, the sociotechnological 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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.