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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 318 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half title -- Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Textbook and Essay -- 1.1 Middle Ground: Architecture -- 1.2 Law in 'Speakerspace' -- 1.3 Law in 'Manuscriptspace' -- 1.4 Law in 'Bookspace' -- 1.5 Law in Cyberspace: A New 'Onlife World' -- 1.6 Outline -- 1.6.1 What law does -- 1.6.2 Domains of cyberlaw -- 1.6.3 Frontiers of law in an onlife world -- 1.6.4 Finals -- 2. Law, Democracy, and the Rule of Law -- 2.1 What is Law? -- 2.1.1 Sources of law -- 2.1.2 What law does |
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2.1.2.1 Legal effect -- 2.1.2.2 Effective and practical individual rights -- 2.1.3 Legal reasoning -- 2.2 What is Law in a Constitutional Democracy? -- 2.2.1 Law, morality, and politics, and the nature of legal rules -- 2.2.2 Legal certainty, justice, instrumentality -- 3. Domains of Law: Private, Public, and Criminal Law -- 3.1 Private, Public, and Criminal Law: Conceptual Distinctions -- 3.1.1 Absolute rights and relative rights -- 3.1.2 Private law and public law -- 3.1.3 Private law and criminal law -- 3.2 Private Law -- 3.2.1 Property law: transfer of movables |
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3.2.2 Contract law and property law: sale and transfer of real estate -- 3.2.3 Tort liability -- 3.3 Public Law and Criminal Law -- 3.3.1 Public law -- 3.3.1.1 Constitutional law -- 3.3.1.2 Administrative law -- 3.3.2 Criminal law -- 3.3.2.1 Substantive criminal law -- 3.3.2.2 Criminal procedure, including police investigation -- 4. International and Supranational Law -- 4.1 Jurisdiction in Western Legal Systems -- 4.1.1 An example -- 4.1.2 National jurisdiction -- 4.2 International Law -- 4.2.1 Sources of international law -- 4.2.2 Monism and dualism in international law -- 4.3 Supranational Law |
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4.3.1 Transfer of sovereignty -- 4.3.2 Sources of EU law -- 4.3.3 Case law of the CJEU -- 4.4 International Rule of Law -- 5. Privacy and Data Protection -- 5.1 Human Rights Law -- 5.1.1 Human rights as defence rights against the modern state -- 5.1.2 From liberty rights to social, economic, and further rights -- 5.2 The Concept of Privacy -- 5.2.1 Taxonomies and family resemblance -- 5.2.2 Privacy and technology -- 5.3 The Right to Privacy -- 5.3.1 The right to privacy: constitutional law -- 5.3.2 The right to privacy: international law -- 5.3.3 The right to privacy: supranational law |
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5.3.4 Article 8 ECHR -- 5.3.5 Case law Article 8 ECHR regarding surveillance -- 5.3.5.1 Post-crime surveillance -- 5.3.5.2 Pre-crime surveillance (including surveillance by the intelligence services) -- 5.4 Privacy and Data Protection -- 5.4.1 Defaults: an opacity right and a transparency right -- 5.4.2 Distinctive but overlapping rights: a Venn diagram -- 5.4.3 Legal remedies in case of violation -- 5.5 Data Protection Law -- 5.5.1 EU and US data protection law -- 5.5.2 EU data protection law -- 5.5.2.1 Sources of law regarding EU data protection law -- 5.5.2.2 Material and territorial scope |
| Note |
5.5.2.3 Personal data and data subject |
| Summary |
This is a textbook on law for computer scientists and many others with no wish to become a lawyer, who are nevertheless in need of a proper introduction to how law operates and how it affects individuals, societies, and others. It introduces: privacy and data protection, cybercrime, copyright, private law liability and legal personhood. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 30, 2020). |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Law and legislation.
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Computers -- Law and legislation.
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Computers -- Law and legislation.
(OCoLC)fst00872821
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Information technology -- Law and legislation.
(OCoLC)fst00973111
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hildebrandt, Mireille Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO,c2020 9780198860877 |
| ISBN |
0192604902 electronic book |
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9780192604903 (electronic bk.) |
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