Impacts and issues that the Data Portability Right has on businesses

The continual emergence of new technologies impacts every aspect of society including the way people work. Most of the modern-day labour is carried out in a digital environment allowing employers to exercise their supervisory ...

Emotion recognition technologies are expected to grow at a rate of almost 40% per annum, reaching an expected market size of 36.07 billion USD by 2021. However, there has been a paucity of academic discourse about the ...

Background Innovations in technology have contributed to rapid changes in the way that modern biomedical research is carried out. Researchers are increasingly required to endorse adaptive and flexible ...

A legal analysis of the material effects of the GDPR on the Processing of personal data by data brokers for online marketing purposes. This thesis tackles the questions of how the GDPR's rules on extended applicability on ...

The adoption of digital technologies and creation of global internet infrastructure for the vast array of companies and individuals offering products and services that leverage its connectivity has transformed our world ...

A brief study on computer licenses in contracting and procurement.

Abstract I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips. Psalm 89: 34 Contract law exists since the time immemorial. Our life is full of promises. In Ethiopia, there is a saying that ‘‘it is ...

Analysis of the data privacy policy in the Republic of Serbia, with focus on legal framework and attitude that citizens and institutions have towards this issue

The emergence of new forms of interactions in the online environment, as social media, search engine and e-commerce has shifted the business industry and introduced a data-driven economy, where data has become the new ...

Network neutrality is a widely debated policy issue that has the potential to alter the dynamics of accessing online content. The main focus of the debate revolves around analyzing whether broadband internet access market ...

This thesis considers the balancing of privacy with freedom of expression pursuant to the the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Satakunnan Markkinapörssi Oy and Satamedia Oy v. Finland.

The data privacy field is currently in the moment of asking whether providing more control to the data subject can be a solution applicable in the real world for the protection of the right to privacy. The critics of a ...

In this thesis, I critically assess two related questions; the scope of EU data protection law pursuant to the new General Data Protection Regulation, and the one-stop-shop mechanism in the Regulation. The first part of ...

The currently pending Megaupload case highlights that in the United States jurisdiction there is the urgent need for additional third-party protections in cloud assets seizure . Using the case as a point of departure, this ...

With the global economy gone digital and the Internet facilitating increased communication across borders, there is no doubt that information technology plays a more crucial role than ever before. Companies in almost every ...

The research is an analysis of the legal issues posed in Data Privacy Law from Mobile Instant Messaging applications (MIMs). The MIM application mainly considered in the thesis is WhatsApp. The popular application acquired ...

Historically observed, development and application of new technologies has always been an area of skepticism versus optimism. Patenting in the field of biotechnologies mirrors that global pattern. Finding the right balance ...

Health and wellbeing apps are proliferating at an exponential rate. It has created a billion dollar market that would make the industry seek every opportunity to take a competitive advantage. At times, this may be at the ...

In recent years, autonomous vehicles have attracted much attention. While such vehicles will have an immense potential in increasing traffic safety, they will be involved in traffic accidents. In Chapter 2, the term ...

Mobile application relationships consists of three contracts, namely the distribution agreement, the terms of service agreement and the EULA. With regards to end-users and developers, distributors enjoy a rather dominant ...

Personal data that identifies individual persons is given some level of protection in many jurisdictions and for various reasons. In Europe, general privacy rights, mainly under the 1950 Human Rights Convention has, for a ...

The main objective of this thesis is to explain the rights that the consumers are entitled to have in the contracts for the supply of digital content. One of the most important issues is the classification of digital content ...

Analysis of the draft directive by the EU on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against their unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure

The evolutionary character of technology creates new conditions for the DRM in the online copyright world. The legal rules have to be in accordance with the new applications and platforms in order to be effective. Cloud ...

The thesis analyses the impact of the existing legal framework in Uganda on the Mobile Money Service with a specific reference to the new ICT related laws and Bank of Uganda Mobile Money Guidelines.The thesis goes ahead ...

In the thesis it is analysed whether it is possible to create a positice credit registry under the current legislation which is in accordance with EU's legislation, especially on data protection.

Progressive development of society and the social relations to which it gives rise have always been considered as reasons for influencing the appearance of new objects of the intellectual property and subsequently amendment ...

While standard form contracts provide a convenient and economical way for a consumer to purchase a cloud services, they facilitate the incorporation of unfair contract terms. Typically, contracts between CSPs and cloud ...

Thai intermediary liability law is vague and too broad, consequently, it hampers freedom of expression and economic development. European Union (EU) intermediary liability law has divided intermediary liability by function ...

The paper is detail analysis of European legal framework concerning Exhaustion Doctrine and its application in European Union specifically in digital goods and secondary market, whereas its effect and judicial proceedings ...

This work is aimed at analysing the legal framework for data protection, in so far as it relates to the issue of personal data transfer from the EU/EEA to third countries. The main question is: does the current legal regime ...

The research focuses on data protection policy in non-Baltic former Soviet countries. The first part comparatively analyses the role of various regulatory instruments. The second part compares and studies three concrete ...

The thesis is about hybrid consumers, new actors who have emerged in electronic commerce. These hybrid consumers are identified in the thesis, their significance to electronic pointed out and ways of regulating their ...

Comparative analysis

This thesis offers a critical approach to the current regime of Binding Corporate Rules (“BCR”) used by large companies to transfer personal data within the same corporate group to third countries which do not offer adequate ...