Digital Anonymity and the Law: Tensions and Dimensions (Information Technology and Law Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9067041564 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 307 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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J. (Corien) Prins, Professor of Law and Informatization, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.Miriam J. About the Author Chris Nicoll, Barrister (New Zealand), Solicitor (UK and New Zealand).J. student, Centre for Law and Public Administration, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. M. . van Dellen, Ph.D. E
"What anonymity? What law?" according to Kindle Customer. I just received a copy and haven't read it cover-to-cover yet. I have, however, thumbed through several sections and am sorely disappointed.As an attorney, I find most egregious the lack of a case index (much less a statute index). Indeed, with the exception of Michael Froomkin's section, the book is largely devoid of cases and equally devoid of robust citation (whether in legal form, or otherwise).The remailer section does not describe how deployed remailer systems work in an even remotely correct way. The authors seem to confuse several different concepts and place remailers on the wrong network layer, too. They seem to miss how remail
(Corien) Prins, Professor of Law and Informatization, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.Miriam J. . Chris Nicoll, Barrister (New Zealand), Solicitor (UK and New Zealand).J. van Dellen, Ph.D. E. student, Centre for Law and Public Administration, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. M. J
Everyday life is evi dence that technological advance provides numerous opportunities to trace and track people down. Debates rage about how, by whom, and to what extent cyberspace anonymity should be controlled, for technological advance not only provides for new opportunities to trace and track people down.. The pressure on anonymous communication has grown substantially after the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the subsequent new political climate. The growing interest of people in using the Internet has had a key im pact on the worldwide availability of personal information. While the formal legal protection of this right appears at an all-time high, developments in both the public and private sec tor show a growing number of legal and especially technical means to undermine anonymity. The right to anonymous exchange of information as well as anonymous commu nication is in an odd state of paradox. Although it is still difficult to oversee their e