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

• Main Author: Noto La Diega, Guido (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Subjects: Jurisprudence & general issues; IT & Communications law; Contract law; Copyright law; Patents law; Amazon Echo; Bluetooth; Composite Things; computer-implemented inventions; concept of product; consumer protection; Contracting; cross-border portability of online content services; Cyber-risks; cybersecurity; data portability; data protection; Faulty products; foreseeability; Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International; insurance; intellectual property rights; jurisdiction; Liability; liability allocation; M2M; negligence; Netflix Law; NFC; non-personal data; online content services; Patenting; privacy; Product liability; RFID; Spreadex Ltd v Cochrane; The Internet of Things; things of danger; tortious liability; Trade secrets; transparency; UK Consumer Rights Act 2015
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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.