Cybersecurity covers the broad range of technical and social issues that must be considered to protect networked information systems. The importance of the concept has increased as so many government, business, and day-to-day activities globally have moved online. It has been increasingly...

It is over a decade since the signing of the World Intellectual Property Organization's quot;Internet treatiesquot;. These treaties' quot;anti-circumventionquot; rules ban the creation, distribution or use of tools that bypass Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) even for otherwise legal...

In this paper, we explain what more is needed to square the circle of Internet regulation in the broader public interest, for all Internet users, not the fortunate few or the even more fortunate and fewer dominant corporations. We argue for ‘prosumer law’ and give an example of our proposed...

Google and Apple’s smartphone and tablet ‘app’ stores are facing significant antitrust scrutiny in Europe, culminating in enforcement action by the European Commission and specific obligations in the new EU Digital Markets Act. In a field previously dominated by US law and jurisprudence,...

In this article we have used existing literature, a large-scale electronic survey of stakeholder participants, an expert workshop and interviews with a range of LAP stakeholders to answer the following research questions: • Where should action on Internet security sit in the continuous...

The principal cause of the 1930s depression in Southeast Asia lay outside the region — through a sharp contraction in demand for the region’s major commodity exports. But it had important internal causes too: an oversupply of primary commodities and an increasing scarcity of new agricultural...

The ongoing development of computing, communications and storage technologies presents a challenge to privacy protection, given the increasing ease with which personal data can be collected, analysed, stored, and shared. Computer scientists have developed “privacy by design” techniques such...