
Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy
Edina Harbinja
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Future Law: Challenges for Law, Technology and Culture
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Published 28 February 2027
Critical perspectives on new and emerging technologies and the important challenges
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.
Acknowledgements
Dedication
List of Contributors
Table of Abbreviations
Part 1: My Home is No Longer My Castle: Legal Foundations for Governing a Data Driven World
1. Introduction to Future Frontiers of Law and Technology
Andelka M. Phillips, Claudio Lombardi, and Edina Harbinja
2. The Expansion of Privacy Torts in the Common Law World
Róisín Á Costello
3. Let’s Get (Cyber) Physical: Australian legal implications
Kayleen Manwaring and Annabelle Lee
4. Pipe Dreams. From Second Life and Google Glass to Twitter and the Metaverse, why technological fantasies persist and (almost) always end in failure
Paul Bernal
5. Comparative Assessment of Non-Personal Data Access Frameworks
Vikas Kathuria
6. Incident Response and Data Protection Law
Andrew Nicholas Cormack
Part 2: All Our Data Will Be Held Against Us – Privacy, Safety, Autonomy, & Property in a Data Driven World
Part 2.1 Hacking everything. How Can We be Safe in a Cyber Physical World?
7. Parallel lines: why anti-doping is like cybersecurity
Wendy Grossman and Jon Crowcroft
8. Technology-facilitated violence: wrongs against persons and the realm of criminal law in the digital age
Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter
9.Combatting Technology-Facilitated Abuse in the Smart Home Through Corporate Digital Responsibility
Rebecca Owens and Jehana Copilah-Ali
10. Hyper-Collection and Identity Crime: How the Need for Data Feeds Technology-based Offending
Brendan Walker-Munro
11. Respect For Contextual Integrity: A Framework for Designing Safe and Age-Appropriate Digital Environments for Children
Joseph Savirimuthu
Part 2.2 Owning Everything. How Can We Protect People, Privacy, and Autonomy in a Cyber Physical World?
12. Femtech: Intimate Biodata and Bodily Autonomy
Helen Oliver
13. The Use of Prenatal Testing Technologies to Select Against Disability: Recent Developments, and Future Directions
Heloise Robinson
14. The Regulation of Biometric Information in New Zealand – A Case Study
Kylie Jackson-Cox
15. Techno-legal Determinism in EU Law: Accuracy in Biometrics
Margaret Warthon
16. The politics of postmortem privacy
Mauricio Figueroa
17. Sexbots and the Law: Criminal & Privacy Perspectives
Madi McCarthy
Part 2.3. Future Frontiers of Creation. Intellectual Property, Competition Law & Beyond in an AI world.
18. Competition and Innovation in Developing Countries
Thomas Cheng
19. Automated enforcement of copyrighted works in digital scenarios: New perspectives derived from Artificial Intelligence
Jesus Manuel Niebla Zatarain, Virginia Berenice Niebla Zatarain and Gonzalo Armienta Hernandez
20. Spectrum of transparency and secrecy in the AI-assisted public sector decision-making in the European Union
Ida Varošanec
21. Distributed Ledger Technology-empowered gaming spaces: Copyright, Virtual Property, and Gaming Governance
Salvatore Fasciana
Index

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Andelka M. Phillips
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