Future Frontiers of Law and Technology, Volume 1

Andelka M. Phillips is Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Leicester, UK, and Academic Affiliate, HeLEX Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and Affiliate, Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Belgium. Andelka is also now an Associate Member of the Centre for Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Edina Harbinja is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Birmingham Claudio Lombardi is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen.

• AcknowledgementsDedicationList of ContributorsTable of AbbreviationsPart 1: My Home is No Longer My Castle: Legal Foundations for Governing a Data Driven World1. Introduction to Future Frontiers of Law and TechnologyAndelka M. Phillips, Claudio Lombardi, and Edina HarbinjaIntroduction to the Future Frontiers of Law and Technology collectionTechnology in an Age of Future RiskFuture Frontiers of Law and Technology, Volume 1: Technologies, Data and People2. The Expansion of Privacy Torts in the Common Law WorldRóisín Á CostelloIntroductionFrom Property to Personality-based privacy tortsExpanding Tort Law to Recognise ‘The Right to Privacy’Conclusion: An Ever Expanding Action?3. Let’s Get (Cyber) Physical: Australian legal implicationsKayleen Manwaring and Annabelle LeeIntroductionUnderstanding Cyber-Physical Technologies: The Concept of an 'eObject'Key Challenges Arising from Cyber-Physical TechnologiesCyber securityData collection and useConclusion and Future Directions4. Pipe Dreams. From Second Life and Google Glass to Twitter and the Metaverse, why technological fantasies persist and (almost) always end in failurePaul BernalIntroduction‘Ev’rybody wants to be a cat’……because a cat’s the only cat who knows where it’s at.Google Glass and related technologyBrave New WorldWinning social media: Musk and TwitterWhat works, and what doesn’t?5. Comparative Assessment of Non-Personal Data Access FrameworksVikas KathuriaIntroductionNature of Data Access RightsFrom Ownership to Data Access Rights of Users in the EUFrameworks to Accord Data Access RightsComparative Assessment of Different FrameworksConclusion6. Incident Response and Data Protection LawAndrew Nicholas Cormack IntroductionImportance of Incident ResponseIncident Response and GDPRStages of Incident ResponseLegal BugsOther Mutually-Beneficial ApplicationsPart 2: All Our Data Will Be Held Against Us – Privacy, Safety, Autonomy, & Property in a Data Driven WorldPart 2.1 Hacking everything. How Can We be Safe in a Cyber Physical World?7. Parallel lines: why anti-doping is like cybersecurityWendy Grossman and Jon CrowcroftParallelsThreat modelsIncentivesAlternativesLessons8. Technology-facilitated violence: wrongs against persons and the realm of criminal law in the digital ageMarthe Goudsmit Samaritter IntroductionCapturing non-physical wrongs against persons: the criminalisation of image-based sexual abuseThe challenge: wrongfulness of non-physical violenceUnderstanding the infringed: personhood as a theoretical foundation for criminal lawThe digital age unveils our relational naturePersonhood effects on criminal law: the wrongness of non-physical infringementsConcluding remarks9.Combatting Technology-Facilitated Abuse in the Smart Home Through Corporate Digital ResponsibilityRebecca Owens and Jehana Copilah-AliIntroductionWhat are Smart Home Devices?The Unintended Consequences of Smart Home DevicesIssues with the UK's Current Legislative ResponseTowards a Corporate Digital Responsibility FrameworkConcluding Thoughts10. Hyper-Collection and Identity Crime: How the Need for Data Feeds Technology-based OffendingBrendan Walker-MunroIntroductionWhat is Identity Crime?Hyper-Collection and Identity CrimeConclusion11. Respect For Contextual Integrity: A Framework for Designing Safe and Age-Appropriate Digital Environments for ChildrenJoseph SavirimuthuIntroductionThe Age-Appropriate Design Code: An overviewContextual Integrity: A New Analytical Framework for Children's LifeworldsConclusionPart 2.2 Owning Everything. How Can We Protect People, Privacy, and Autonomy in a Cyber Physical World?12. Femtech: Intimate Biodata and Bodily AutonomyHelen OliverIntroductionBackgroundThe Quantified Woman V The LawData as an Exploitable Commodity in the USPost-Dobbs Efforts at Regulation in the USConclusion13. The Use of Prenatal Testing Technologies to Select Against Disability: Recent Developments, and Future DirectionsHeloise Robinson IntroductionThe Conflict Model, and the Expressivist ArgumentThe Expressivist Argument and the LawFuture Directions: Technologies and Pregnancy14. The Regulation of Biometric Information in New Zealand – A Case StudyKylie Jackson-CoxIntroductionBiometric InformationPrivacy Act 2020Development of the Biometric CodeThe Biometric CodeFuture DirectionsConclusion15. Techno-legal Determinism in EU Law: Accuracy in BiometricsMargaret WarthonIntroductionFrom indexed cards to Agentic biometricsAccuracy, neutrality, and the deterministic narrativeTechno-legal determinism in EU law: The GDPR, the AI Act, and the limits of technical transparencyAn Illustration, XAI and Legal Transparency RequirementsConcluding remarks: accuracy as the central problem16. The politics of postmortem privacyMauricio FigueroaIntroductionThe emergence of postmortem privacyPostmortem privacy: a defying principle.Three loci of tensionsReflections on heterogeneityConclusion17. Sexbots and the Law: Criminal & Privacy PerspectivesMadi McCarthyIntroductionCriminal LawPrivacy LawConclusionPart 2.3. Future Frontiers of Creation. Intellectual Property, Competition Law & Beyond in an AI world.18. Competition and Innovation in Developing CountriesThomas ChengIntroductionInnovation in Developing CountriesCompetition and Innovation in Developing CountriesConclusion19. Automated enforcement of copyrighted works in digital scenarios: New perspectives derived from Artificial IntelligenceJesus Manuel Niebla Zatarain, Virginia Berenice Niebla Zatarain and Gonzalo Armienta HernandezIntroductionNew Artificial Intelligence and the arrival of generative technology in copyright lawCopyright implications of artificial generation of artistic worksConclusions20. Spectrum of transparency and secrecy in the AI-assisted public sector decision-making in the European UnionIda VarošanecIntroductionNuances of transparencyNuances of secrecyTransparency and secrecy in EU law and beyondTransparency and secrecy on a spectrum through the lens of trustConclusion21. Distributed Ledger Technology-empowered gaming spaces: Copyright, Virtual Property, and Gaming GovernanceSalvatore FascianaIntroductionFeatures of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)DLT as Digital Right Management 2.0 for gaming performanceDLT as catalyst for virtual propertyDAO as decentralized governance for game spacesRegulation of Gaming Spaces and future directionsIndex