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The Biopolitical Public Domain: The Legal Construction Of The Surveillance Economy, Julie E. Cohen
The Biopolitical Public Domain: The Legal Construction Of The Surveillance Economy, Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Within the political economy of informational capitalism, commercial surveillance practices are tools for resource extraction. That process requires an enabling legal construct, which this essay identifies and explores. Contemporary practices of personal information processing constitute a new type of public domain — a repository of raw materials that are there for the taking and that are framed as inputs to particular types of productive activity. As a legal construct, the biopolitical public domain shapes practices of appropriation and use of personal information in two complementary and interrelated ways. First, it constitutes personal information as available and potentially valuable: as a …
The Tortoise And The Hare Of International Data Privacy Law: Can The United States Catch Up To Rising Global Standards?, Matthew Humerick
The Tortoise And The Hare Of International Data Privacy Law: Can The United States Catch Up To Rising Global Standards?, Matthew Humerick
Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology
Technological developments spur the development of big data on a global scale. The breadth of data companies collect, maintain, process, and transmit affects nearly every country and organization around the world. Inherent to big data are issues of data protection and transfers to third countries. While many jurisdictions emphasize the importance of protecting consumer data, such as the European Union, others, like the United States, do not. To circumvent this issue, the United States and European Union contracted around data privacy standard discrepancies through the Safe Harbor Agreement, which eased cross-border data transfers. However, the Court of Justice of the …
The Industrial Internet Of Things: Risks, Liabilities, And Emerging Legal Issues, Mauricio Paez, Kerianne Tobitsch
The Industrial Internet Of Things: Risks, Liabilities, And Emerging Legal Issues, Mauricio Paez, Kerianne Tobitsch
NYLS Law Review
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