Social Networking: Law, Rights and Policy

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Editor: Paul Lambert | ISBN: 978-1-905536-55-9 | Format: Paper Back 234 x 156  | Publication Date:  3 April 2014 | Price: €99 (£88 $127) |  Extent:   55o pages (including prelims and index)

“exhaustive and informative … timely, welcome and significant contribution … will inform the debate as to how these serious issues can be addressed by social and legislative initiatives.”

Professor David Bainbridge
, Author of Information Technology & Intellectual Property Law 6th ed

About

Social Networking: Law, Rights and Policy is a timely book which examines and explores many of the pressing issues presented by social networking and the array of legal issues, challenges and concerns that it has given rise to.

 

Social networking itself is wonderful yet staggering. In a short space of time user populations greater than the populations of nation states have joined social networks. One social networking website and one related website each report amassing over 1 billion regular users.

Yet, the legal and other issues involved with social networking and related websites are getting as many media headlines as the technologies themselves. Some of these are similar to established legal issues, however, with increasing frequency, the issues are entirely new.

Reviews: Social Networking Law, Rights and Policy

“This formidable volume by a thought leader and expert contributors tackles the vital issues surrounding one of the most ubiquitous social trends of our times.  I applaud its focus on the importance of privacy and the need for Privacy by Design in social networking systems.”
 Ann Cavoukian, PhD, 
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada;
 World’s Privacy by Design (PhD) Expert

“Social networking, data protection, privacy and online safety are increasingly important. This excellent book grapples with these new and sometimes complex concerns.” 
Jan Philipp Albrecht MEP
 (Member European Parliament);
 Member Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; LIBE Data Protection Report Rapporteur

“exhaustive and informative … timely, welcome and significant contribution … will inform the debate as to how these serious issues can be addressed by social and legislative initiatives.”
 Professor David Bainbridge, 
Author of Information Technology & Intellectual Property Law 6th ed

“a clear and comprehensive resource for anyone interested in the … issues presented by social networking.”
 TJ McIntyre
, Lecturer & Associate Dean, Sutherland Law School, UCD; Chairman, Digital Rights Ireland

“excellent … address[es] the wide range of issues that result from the tensions between innovation, freedom … right to be left alone … social networking and education, children, sports people, evidence, employers and the administration of justice. I recommend it to anyone who wants to keep abreast of this challenging area.”
 Rónán Kennedy, 
Law Lecturer & Director Law, Technology & Governance LLM, National University of Ireland Galway

“A valuable introduction to … the new issues that arise with the social web.”
 Adrian Weckler, 
Tech Editor, Independent Newspapers

About the Editor and Contributors

 

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Who should buy this book?

Social Networking: Law, Rights and Policy will be of great interest to lawyers specialising in IP, company law, employment law, tort, family, sports and data protection.  This book will also be of great interest to the following persons and institutions: Compliance personnel, HR managers, IT managers , legal academics, students, librarians, schools, universities, employers,  parents, organisations dealing with online abuse, sports organisations and policy makers, website operators and internet users.