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Description
This
monograph examines how European Union law and regulation address
concentrations of private economic power which impede free information
flows on the Internet to the detriment of Internet users' autonomy. In
particular, competition law, sector specific regulation (if it exists),
data protection and human rights law are considered and assessed to the
extent they can tackle such concentrations of power for the benefit of
users. Using a series of illustrative case studies, of Internet
provision (including the net neutrality debate), search, mobile devices and app stores, and the cloud, the
work demonstrates the gaps that currently exist in EU law and
regulation. It is argued that these gaps exist due, in part, to current
overarching trends guiding the regulation of economic power, namely
neoliberalism, by which only the situation of market failure can invite
ex ante rules, buoyed by the lobbying of regulators and legislators by
those in possession of such economic power to achieve outcomes which
favour their businesses. Given this systemic, and extra-legal, nature of
the reasons as to why the gaps exist, solutions from outside the system
are proposed at the end of each case study.
Endorsement
'This
is a richly textured, critically argued work, shedding new light on
case studies in information law which require critical thinking. It is
both an interesting series of case studies (notably cloud computing, app
stores and search) that displays original and deeply researched
scholarship and a framework for critiquing neoliberal competition policy
from a prosumerist and citizen-oriented perspective.' - Professor Chris
Marsden, University of Sussex
Events
I will be giving seminars and talks about the book during January:
9/1/2017 - Power and Identity conference, Graduate Programme on Global Society, University of Tokyo (Japan)
24/1/2017 - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society seminar, University of Tilburg (NL)
26/1/2017 - Digital Rights and Enforcement panel, Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference, Brussels (Belgium)
31/1/2017 - official book launch and evening reception (reply to me if you are interested in attending), London (UK)