Much of the legal debate over privacy is based around abstract notions from legal philosophy concerning fundamental rights. However, there is a growing body of evidence from the social sciences regarding privacy-related individual and institutional behaviour. Some of these results are...

In this interdisciplinary paper written by a socio-legal scholar and a computer scientist, we explain a novel holistic approach to Internet regulation in the broader public interest. We argue for ‘prosumer law' and give an example of our proposed solution to the problems of dominant social...

Elections held during May 2007 in England and Scotland for the first time allowed accredited observers access to polling stations and counts. This provided an opportunity for detailed scrutiny of the use of e-voting and e-counting equipment in these elections. This article assesses the use of...

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...

This article analyses the feasibility of the adoption of specific, international human rights law-compliant, transatlantic standards on foreign surveillance, in the context of Edward Snowden's revelations of large-scale surveillance programs operated by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and...

The most plausible means for systematic UK government access to private-sector data is through voluntary agreements with the operators of systems and databases. This was how Internet Service Providers' communications records were accessed by police before specific statutory provision was made in...