Books in the Ex Machina: Law, Technology, and Society series

The Internet has dramatically altered the landscape of crime and national security, creating new threats. This work brings together leading experts to describe crime prevention and security protection in the electronic age. It provides information ranging from government requirements that facilitate spying to methods of digital proof.

The Internet has dramatically altered the landscape of crime and national security, creating new threats. This work brings together leading experts to describe crime prevention and security protection in the electronic age. It provides information ranging from government requirements that facilitate spying to methods of digital proof.

Explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy. This book sets forth a different understanding of what privacy is. It recommends how the law can be reformed to simultaneously protect our privacy and allow us to enjoy the benefits of our digital world.

Presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. This book considers questions such as: What rules should govern virtual communities? Should the law step in to protect property rights when virtual items are destroyed or stolen?

In this survey and analysis of how new visual technologies are transforming both the practice and culture of American law, the author explains how, when, and why legal practice moved from a largely words-only environment to one more dependent on and driven by images, and how rapidly developing technologies have further accelerated this change.

The Internet has been integral to the globalization of a range of goods and production, from intellectual property and scientific research to political discourse and cultural symbols. This book looks at issues that lie at the intersection of globalization, law, and technology, and examines the wider contextual question of Internet regulation.

Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy, trade, cheat, steal, and have every possible kind of adventure. This book helps in understanding how the digital worlds change the future of our universe.