Parasiteware: Unlocking Personal Privacy
Spyware presents a threat of privacy infringement to unassuming internet users irrespective of their country of citizenship. European legislation attempts to protect end-users from unethical processing of their personal data. Spyware technologies, however, skirts these laws and often break them in t...
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University of Edinburgh
2006-09-01
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| description | Spyware presents a threat of privacy infringement to unassuming internet users irrespective of their country of citizenship. European legislation attempts to protect end-users from unethical processing of their personal data. Spyware technologies, however, skirts these laws and often break them in their entirety. Outlawing the spyware and strengthening the legal consent requirement to mine data are statutory solutions that can prevent spyware users from skirting the law. An internationally standardized technology education system for the judiciaries in Europe and the U.S. can help ensure that when spyware users do break the law, they cannot hide by escaping from one nation to another without being held accountable. Transnational improvements are necessary to remedy the global spyware epidemic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1c02baaec68b4d4094c33b455d3155dc2022-12-22T00:17:15ZengUniversity of EdinburghSCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society1744-25672006-09-0133203220Parasiteware: Unlocking Personal PrivacyDaniel B. GarrieRebecca WongSpyware presents a threat of privacy infringement to unassuming internet users irrespective of their country of citizenship. European legislation attempts to protect end-users from unethical processing of their personal data. Spyware technologies, however, skirts these laws and often break them in their entirety. Outlawing the spyware and strengthening the legal consent requirement to mine data are statutory solutions that can prevent spyware users from skirting the law. An internationally standardized technology education system for the judiciaries in Europe and the U.S. can help ensure that when spyware users do break the law, they cannot hide by escaping from one nation to another without being held accountable. Transnational improvements are necessary to remedy the global spyware epidemic.http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol3-3/parasiteware.asp |
| spellingShingle | Daniel B. Garrie Rebecca Wong Parasiteware: Unlocking Personal Privacy SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society |
| title | Parasiteware: Unlocking Personal Privacy |
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| title_short | Parasiteware: Unlocking Personal Privacy |
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