Noto La Diega, Guido <br/><br/>
Internet of Things and the Law  Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies 

 -  Taylor & Francis  2023 
 - 1 online resource 
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<br/><br/> Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the legal issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). For decades, the decreasing importance of tangible wealth and power - and the corresponding increasing significance of their disembodied counterparts - has been the subject of much legal analysis. For some time now, legal scholars have grappled with how laws drafted for tangible property and pre-digital 'offline' technologies can cope with dematerialisation, digitalisation, and the internet. As dematerialisation continues, this book aims to illuminate the opposite movement: re-materialisation, namely the return of data, knowledge, and power within a physical 'smart' world. This move frames the book's central question: can the law steer re-materialisation in a human-centric and societally beneficial direction? To answer it, the book focuses on the IoT, the socio-technological phenomenon that is primarily responsible for this shift. After a thorough analysis of how existing laws can be interpreted to empower IoT end-users, Noto La Diega leaves us with the fundamental question of what happens when the law fails us and concludes with a call for collective resistance against 'smart' capitalism. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780429468377 9781032305790 9781138604797 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Contract law<br/>Copyright law<br/>IT & Communications law<br/>Jurisprudence & general issues<br/>Patents law
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Amazon Echo; Bluetooth; Composite Things; computer-implemented inventions; concept of product; consumer protection; Contracting; cross-border portability of online content services; Cyber-risks; cybersecurity; data portability; data protection; Faulty products; foreseeability; Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International; insurance; intellectual property rights; jurisdiction; Liability; liability allocation; M2M; negligence; Netflix Law; NFC; non-personal data; online content services; Patenting; privacy; Product liability; RFID; Spreadex Ltd v Cochrane; The Internet of Things; things of danger; tortious liability; Trade secrets; transparency; UK Consumer Rights Act 2015