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The Internet of Things, Legal Aspects: What Will Change (Everything)…

BARBRY, Eric - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 87, pp. 83-100

After the birth of the Internet, the rise of Web 2.0, here comes the Internet of Things. Internet has led us to adopt special law, digital economy law…Web 2.0 has urged us to rethink core legal concepts such as liability and ownership and introduce notions such as sharing and availability. The...

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Is Security Lost in the Clouds?

BLUMENTHAL, Marjory S. - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2011) 81, pp. 69-86

"The cloud" can apply to different kinds of services (typically differentiated as platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, and software-as-a-service), and it is the subject of rampant hype about its benefits. This paper draws on extensive readings from the literature (technical,...

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Online Privacy in Social Media: A Conceptual Exploration of Empowerment and Vulnerability

PIERSON, Jo - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 88, pp. 99-120

media, empowerment and privacy. In this paper we take a closer look at how people's disempowerment and vulnerability is … on issues of privacy in relation to social media. In particular we take a critical view on how vulnerability takes shape … in online consumer privacy. For this we first discuss the notions of mass self-communication, empowerment and privacy …

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Public Perception of the Data Environment and Information Transactions: A selected-survey analysis of the European public's views on the data environment and data transactions

HALLINAN, Dara; FRIEDEWALD, Michael - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 88, pp. 61-78

with individuals' theoretically stated preferences about privacy and the importance of personal data. This paper considers … environment and their interaction with it. We find that, whilst the public places significant weight on the values of privacy and …

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Secondary Uses of Personal Identity Information: Policies, Technologies and Regulatory Framework

ADJEI, Joseph K.; OLESEN, Henning - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 88, pp. 79-98

Although personal identity information must primarily be used for protecting and promoting the physical needs of individuals, it has also become central to the business models of the digital age due to its use for other secondary purposes, resulting in various innovative identity management...

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The Value of Personal Information: Evidence from Empirical Economic studies

GODEL, Moritz; LITCHFIELD, Annabel; MANTOVANI, Iris - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 88, pp. 41-60

EC data protection policy is promoted with reference to economic benefits. However, the value of personal information in legitimate business models is rarely discussed. Various economic studies have tried to measure individuals' valuation of different kinds of personal data. We review empirical...

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An Online Survey Experiment on Ambiguity and Privacy

ACQUISTI, Alessandro; GROSSKLAGS, Jens - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 88, pp. 19-39

privacy, and economic decision-making. In particular, we consider economic scenarios where individuals lack important … information about facets of a privacy choice and where the relevant outcomes of a choice are non-deterministic. We begin by … highlighting the reasons why a lack of information by at least one party of a transaction is central to many privacy situations. We …

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Anyone's Game: Economic and Policy Implications of the Internet of Things as a Market for Services

SELBY, Jaclyn - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 87, pp. 21-40

Research suggests the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: a networked environment in which smart objects, called 'Things,' are imbued with identification data and micro-processing power to form an Internet of Things (IoT). Data production across the Internet continues...

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Private Clouds with No Silver Lining: Legal Risk in Private Cloud Services

IGLESIAS, Rebecca; NICHOLLS, Rob; TRAVIS, Anisha - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 85, pp. 125-140

This paper provides an overview of the legal risks that arise from the use of private clouds arising from lawful interception, data protection obligations and legal professional privilege. The paper uses an Australian perspective to provide examples, but concludes that there are significant...

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Migration to the Cloud Ecosystem: Ushering in a New Generation of Platform Competition

FERSHTMAN, Chaim; GANDAL, Neil - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 85, pp. 109-123

Cloud computing is defined to be Internet based computing technology, where the term 'cloud' simply means Internet - and cloud computing refers to services that are accessed directly over the Internet. There are essentially three categories of cloud computing. (i) Iaas (Infrastructure as a...

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