Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies [Paperback]

Introduction

1. IoT Law: Obstacles and Alternatives in the Regulation of a Non-Binary Sociotechnological Phenomenon

2. The Internet of Spying Sex Toys, Killer Petrol Stations, and Manipulative Toasters: A View of Private Ordering from the Contractual Quagmire

3. The Internet of Contracts: The Tension between Consumer Contract Laws and IoT Imbalance

4. The Internet of Vulnerabilities. Tackling Human and Product Vulnerabilities through Noncontractual Consumer Laws

5. The Internet of Loos, the General Data Protection Regulation, and Digital Dispossession under Surveillance Capitalism

6. The Internet of Things (You Dont Own) under Bourgeois Law: An Integrated Tactic to Rebalance Intellectual Property

Conclusion: When the Law Fails Us: The Commons for a Collectivised and Open IoT

Internet of Things and the Law is an impressive work on several levels. It exposes inadequate consumer safeguards in the current contractual quagmire and complex, overlapping regulatory regimes governing the IOT. Noto La Diega masterfully analyzes the relevant privacy, intellectual property, telecommunications, competition, and internet laws as he explicates their implications and proposes reforms. But like an artist sweeping away an intricate mandala after he has completed it, Noto La Diega boldly recognizes the limits of law and proposes a utopian horizon for IOT governance based on a deep engagement with studies in political economy and social theory. This book not only advances our understanding of IOT policy but also serves as a model for future work in the law and political economy of technology policy.