{"id":2388,"date":"2017-03-16T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T23:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2017-03-16T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T23:32:55","slug":"upcoming-event-private-power-online-information-flows-and-global-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2017\/03\/16\/upcoming-event-private-power-online-information-flows-and-global-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Event: “Private Power, Online Information Flows and Global Laws”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program<\/a>\u00a0in the Faculty of Law at QUT is hosting an upcoming seminar and book launch on Monday 27 March 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Abstract:<\/strong> The emergence of very large transnational private companies which provide critical Internet infrastructure and services has brought with it corresponding concerns about the power of these companies to control, surveil and otherwise influence our communications. Many of these companies also gather vast amounts of data by, and about their users \u2013 a bank of data which has proved attractive to the public power of nation-states\u2019 security and law enforcement agencies, which have accessed it in less than transparent and legitimate ways, as Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations from 2013 attest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Against this backdrop, this event considers how different jurisdictions\u2019 legal, regulatory and policy frameworks, including antitrust\/competition, sector-specific regulation and human\/constitutional rights have been addressing digital dominance issues. Some key topics, including net neutrality in the US & EU, the competition investigations into Google and the emergence of cloud computing, will be covered in order to determine how well existing legal systems are able to protect individual Internet users\u2019 interests vis-\u00e0-vis private power online.<\/p>\n

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