Legal issues in information technology / Mark Perry, Alpana Roy, Melissa de Zwart, Michael Adams, Niloufer Selvadurai, Heather Forrest, Monique Cormier, Simon McKenzie.

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Lawbook Co., 2022.

1st edition

199969

Information technology -- Australia.

Internet -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Privacy -- Australia.

Computer crimes -- Australia.

Social media -- Australia.

1. Options fo the future: The regulation of information

2. Theoretical framework and governance of information

3. Conflicting values and competing laws: Jurisdiction and the internet

4. The evolution of domain name law

5. Cyber-dependent and cyber-enabled crime: Legal responses and challenges

6. Protecting data privacy in an evolving technological environment

7. Social media and social influences

8. Technologies and future.

Controlling Data: Conundrums in Information Technology Law. Pivot. Teleconference. Vax. Lockdown. Super-spreader. Border closures. Ransomware…. The list of buzz words for recent years ever grows. Indeed, 2020 and 2021 have challenged our understanding of how our society operates. We scan QR codes to get into a shop to buy a piece of cheese. We may need to prove our vax status. Kids and students have been locked out of school and often they have been sitting in front of a tablet screen attempting to replicate the in-person experience. For anyone, accomplishing normal activities without a networked device in hand has become very difficult. Legal systems are normally, and quite rightly, measured in their response to challenges, and slow to change. It is difficult for citizens to cope with a legal system that changes regulation and control of civil society overnight – as evidenced by the rapid succession of public health orders that often have left enforcement scratching their heads. On the other hand, rapidly changing deployment of technologies and their intrusion into daily living has come at such a pace that timely policy and legal responses are required. This book is a collection of thought and discussion provoking essays aimed at reaching everyone interested in how governments, corporations and civil society manage the regulation of data in a technology-based society. This probably means every thinking person, as who could not be interested the development of how our information is used and how technology is further embedded in society? Readers who have looked at a cell phone or computer in the last year should be aware of the developing issues that are driving intervention in the acquisition or provision of information. The editor asks readers to contemplate this work as a whole, and to see how the authors provide spotlights on key issues in the heterogeneous mixture of areas that are linked by their operation within a framework built on information technology. This book challenges readers with a focus within inside the information technology domain where law and regulation have a large role to play. - Publisher's website.

Includes index and bibliographical references.

9780455245140

xiv, 226 pages ; 22 cm