Our Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices are constantly monitoring our every move, collecting sensitive data about us in a way that we do not fully appreciate. Manufacturers of these devices have a huge financial incentive to collect as much data on us as they can, and to use and sell this...

Over the past few decades, the nature of agricultural activity has been transformed by the development of digital technology, along with the creation of data protection rights in intellectual property agreements. While international consensus exists regarding the potential of digital...

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...

This paper examines the potential public policy implications for consumers' privacy within the context of the proposed broadcast treaty. First, the paper provides background information on digital rights management and technical protections and how they work. Second, the paper identifies and...

The practice of email forwarding deprives email senders of privacy. Expression meant for only a specific recipient often finds its way into myriad inboxes or onto a public website, exposed for all to see. Simply by clicking the "forward" button, email recipients routinely strip email senders of...

This paper examines the shift from the Internet connection paradigm to an amalgamation paradigm. Ultimately, almost all personal and commercial content will be stored or backed up in the computing Cloud. This is likely to change the way in which copyright is enforced and users' privacy is protected