Future Frontiers of Law and Technology, Volume 1: Technologies, Data and People

Critical perspectives on new and emerging technologies and the important challenges

• Provides in depth coverage of new, emerging & future technologies and the law, including recent developments that have occurred since 2020
• This includes coverage of developments in the Internet of Things and cyber-physical technologies and the experience of life and death in a digital world
• It also provides coverage of developments in Generative AI, consumer focussed healthtech, such as Femtech, along with the use of Biometrics, and Cybercrime, including Image Based Abuse and technology facilitated Intimate Partner Abuse, as well as the Metaverse and sex with robots
• Offers critical perspectives on issues raised by new and emerging technologies from emerging and established scholars across multiple jurisdictions
• Offers critical perspectives on emerging technologies and the future of the protection of intellectual property rights
• Offers diverse perspectives on approaches to governance and regulation of technologies
• Brings together scholars based in or writing about aspects of the law in the following jurisdictions: Scotland; New Zealand; India; Hong Kong; the Republic of Ireland; USA; Mexico; Canada; China; the UK; Australia; the Netherlands; Germany; France; and the EU

In the past three decades, significant developments in computing technology have revolutionised the way we live and work and many of these technologies represent both future risks and benefits. Bringing together a range of perspectives on new and emerging technologies and their regulation, this book presents a variety of perspectives on key technological challenges in a global context. It will assist scholars, practitioners, students and policymakers in understanding cutting edge technologies and the challenges they represent for society and the law. It should assist with furthering debate on significant issues and improving governance of specific technologies.

It brings together a comprehensive and unique collection of emerging and established scholars across multiple jurisdictions including New Zealand, India, Hong Kong, Mexico, the Republic of Ireland, the UK, France, Australia, the Netherlands and Germany. The book focuses on issues related to privacy and data protection, autonomy, safety, cyber security and cybercrime, contract and consumer protection, competition, intellectual property and criminal law. Coverage includes developments in the Internet of Things, cyber-physical technologies, the experience of life and death in a digital world, developments in Generative AI, the use of Biometrics, cybercrime and the future of the protection of intellectual property rights. The collection also acknowledges that technologies are not neutral and several of the contributors also discuss the historical development of specific technologies.

This book is the first volume in a collection of two books. The second volume is entitled Future Frontiers of Law and Technology, Volume 2: Regulation and Governance in an Age of Future Risk. Together, these books explore the future frontiers of law and technology. They address themes of privacy and data protection, the exercise of autonomy, the impacts of technologies, and their regulation and governance, which are then further divided into important subthemes.