Introduction -- IoT law : obstacles and alternatives in the regulation of a non-binary socio-technological phenomenon -- The internet of spying sex toys, killer petrol stations, and manipulative toasters : a view of private ordering from the contractual quagmire -- The internet of contracts : the tension between consumer contract laws and IoT power imbalance -- The internet of vulnerabilities : tackling human and product vulnerabilities through non-contractual consumer laws -- The internet of loos, the General Data Protection Regulation, and digital dispossession under surveillance capitalism -- The internet of things (you don't own) under bourgeois law : an integrated tactic to rebalance intellectual property -- Conclusions.
Summary:
"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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge Research in the Law of emerging technologies
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