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

• Main Author: Noto La Diega, Guido
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2022; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
• Subjects: Company, commercial and competition law: general; Composite Things; Computer architecture and logic design; Computer science; Computer security; computer-implemented inventions; Computing and Information Technology; concept of product; consumer protection; Contract law; Contracting; Contracts; Copyright; Cyber-risks; cybersecurity; data portability; data protection; Data protection law; Faulty products; foreseeability; insurance; Intellectual Property; Intellectual property law; intellectual property rights; Internet of things; Internet of things > Law and legislation; IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations; jurisdiction; Law; Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law; Liability; liability allocation; M2M; negligence; Netflix Law; non-personal data; online content services; Patenting; privacy; Product liability; RFID; The Internet of Things; things of danger; tortious liability; Trade secrets; transparency; insurance; Infosoc Directive; Unfair Commercial Practices Directive; Surveillance Capitalism; NFC; Netflix Law; Lethal Autonomous Weapon System; concept of product; EU Consumer; liability allocation; Cyber-risks; negligence; consumer protection; data protection; Spreadex Ltd v Cochrane; Product liability; Misleading Actions; IoT Data; IoT Context; Contracting; IoT System; Unfair Terms Directive; intellectual property rights; non-personal data; Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International; cybersecurity; online content services; EU Reform; The Internet of Things; Product Liability Directive; IoT User; transparency; UK Legal; Faulty products; computer-implemented inventions; Amazon Echo; data portability; Bluetooth; jurisdiction; privacy; Misleading Omissions; things of danger; UK's Code; IoT Consumer; Open Source Software; Standard Developing Organisations; Unfair Commercial Practices; tortious liability; UK Consumer Rights Act 2015; Trade secrets; Subject Access Requests; Nonpersonal Data; Composite Things; M2M; RFID; cross-border portability of online content services; Transactional Decision; Liability; foreseeability; Patenting; Consumer Sales Directive
• ISBN: 1032305797; 1138604798; 9781138604797; 9781032305790; 0429468377; 9780429887499; 9780429468377; 0429887507; 9780429887482; 0429887493; 0429887485; 9780429887505
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429468377

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.