Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society : Informational Rights and Informational Wrongs

"This edited collection seeks to map the landscape of contemporary informational interests, to evaluate a range of recognised and putative rights and wrongs associated with modern information societies, and to consider how law, regulation, and governance should be deployed in response. New technologies and new applications constantly disrupt our values, our framing of our world, and our sense of where we are and who we are. In our 'information societies', we entertain mixed hopes and expectations, as well as significant fears and concerns. At the root of these, there are a number of informational interests, on the basis of which certain rights are claimed and particular wrongs denounced. This book addresses these interests, considering them as relating primarily to the integrity of the informational eco-system, to the accessibility, accuracy, and authenticity of public information, and to our individual ability to control the outward and inward flows of information that relates directly to ourselves. Covering a wide range of subjects, the book's interrogation of our contemporary information society is oriented around two questions: first, whether the information society in which we live is the kind of society that we think it should be and, second, if not, what we can reasonably expect law, regulation and governance to do in providing the basis for improving it. This book will be of considerable interest to those working at the intersection of law and technology, as well as others concerned with the legal, political, and social aspects of our information society"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword List of Contributors 1 Informational rights and informational wrongs: a tapestry for our times Part A Information society: questions of law, regulation, and governance 2 By-design regulation and European Union law: opportunities, challenges, and the road ahead 3 Corporate regulation by information: democratic deficit and overcoming the dangers of the new regulatory paradigm 4 Computer says no to my upload? Article 17 on filtering and the GDPR prohibition of automated decision-making Part B Informational rights 5 Data extractivism and public access to algorithms: mapping the battleground of international digital trade 6 ‘You AIn’t seen nothing yet’: arguments against the protectability of AI-generated outputs by copyright law 7 Informational rights: puzzles of co-production in 3D printing 8 Victims’ rights to participation and their legitimate information interests 9 Packaging prenatal tests and information for pregnant women: enhancement or dilution of informational interests? Part C Informational wrongs 10 Informational wrongs and our deepest interests 11 Obtaining information from an overmighty subject: the parliamentary experience 12 Rights and wrongs in the vaccine informational ecosystem 13 The legal regulation of transgender personal data: transgender history and disclosure Part D Informational rights, informational wrongs 14 Adoptees and their unknown genetic inheritance: an informational right or (and) an informational wrong? 15 Informational rights, informational wrongs: regulating connected car data access and use for telematics insurance in Europe 16 Intellectual property and data ownership in the European strategy for data 17 A short history of information policies 18 Group privacy? A further question for our information societies Index