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Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies

Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies

Author: Guido Noto La Diega
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138604797
Published In: October 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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TheInternet 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.

Introduction

Chapter 1 – IoT Law: Obstacles and Alternatives in the Regulation of a Non-Binary Socio-Technological Phenomenon

Chapter 2 – The Internet of Spying Sex Toys, Killer Petrol Stations, and Manipulative Toasters. A View of Private Ordering from the Contractual Quagmire

Chapter 3 – The Internet of Contracts. The Tension between Consumer Contract Laws and IoT Power Imbalance

Chapter 4 – The Internet of Vulnerabilities. Tackling Human and Product Vulnerabilities through Non-Contractual Consumer Laws

Chapter 5 – The Internet of Loos, the General Data Protection Regulation, and Digital Dispossession under Surveillance Capitalism

Chapter 6 – The Internet of Things (You Don’t Own) under Bourgeois Law. An Integrated Tactic to Rebalance Intellectual Property

Conclusions