On April 15, 1994, the TRIPS Agreement was adopted in Marrakesh. For the past twenty-five years, this Agreement has established for both developed and developing countries the international minimum standards for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights. One area in which...

Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) hold a central position in the chain of actors responsible for the monitoring of money movements in the European Union. In support of their role, which is to receive, analyse and disseminate suspicious transaction reports, they have been furnished with...

PurposeAs a well-known social institution, crime prevention has traditionally been in the purview of public authorities. However, the ceaseless increase in the use of online resources and governments’ responsibilisation approach to cybercrime prevention have created an ecosystem, which...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1 Citizen relationship management by the Government of India through social media channels; Introduction; Review of the literature; Methodology; Analysis;...

Measures restricting data flows outside one's borders, including mandatory data/server localization measures, are not only a barrier to trade, but also largely ineffective in achieving better internet security or trust. Nevertheless, governments deploy such measures, primarily on grounds of...

Two recent cases, Tennant Energy v. Canada and Elliott Associates v. Korea, demonstrate an emerging yet unresolved applicable law issue in investment arbitration: whether a local personal data protection law should be applied in the absence of parties’ choice. This paper explores this issue...

Digital technologies have profoundly changed not only the ways we create, distribute, access, use and re-use information but also many of the governance structures we had in place. Overall, "older" institutions at all governance levels have grappled and often failed to master the multi-faceted...

We examine three possible explanations for differences in Internet privacy concerns revealed by national regulation: (1) These differences reflect and are related to differences in cultural values described by other research; (2) these differences reflect differences in Internet experience; or (3)...