e-Survey
The e-survey from the e-Stockholm '08 Legal Conference
The speakers at e-Stockholm ’08 were asked to predict what, in their mind, would be the most important IT regulation issue in the year 2010. Some of these suggestions were then discussed during the concluding keynote and panel debate.
The participants at the Conference contributed to the discussion by voting on these topics – what did they think would be the most important issue in two years? The voting was anonymous, and each person was required to provide a unique code in order to cast his or her vote.
The Results
The Topics/Questions
Issues about control
- To what extent should the anonymous use of the Internet legally be allowed and shielded?
- The question of "censorship" or "monitoring" of communications in order to prevent the circulation of malicious, unsolicited, illicit or dangerous content
- The issue of common legal ignorance when trying to strengthen all kind of control in net society
- Ensuring sufficient democratic control over networks
- Violation of copyright laws as regards search engine copying and deployment of copyrighted digital material
- Whether the European Union from a legal point of view will be able to counter the increasing number of copyright infringements via file-sharing networks
- Finding the legal solutions to balance protection of protected material while keeping or creating a safe, democratic and user-friendly electronic market and environment for the individual user
- Freedom of information and its limits in relation to other interests such as copyright, privacy and security
- Safeguarding the public domain and user's rights
- How should the legislator endorse creativity and at the same time promote its encounter with necessary financing and distribution?
- The adaptation of copyright to a new understanding of creativity
- Adapting intellectual property law to the changes in society, where all material is going more or less straight from the producer to the user, and where there is no longer room for protecting middle men who have outlived their usefulness
- Who should control information in order to make a profit from it?
- Will the copyright of texts dissolve due to the fact that computers will have the ability to compose new texts automatically from several sources?
- How will IP owners make money when all media and software are available online for downloading?
- How to define professional, commercial and private use of content in social networks (such as Facebook etc.), as these networks provide a semi-public / semi-private space
- The development of responsibilities for the service providers to monitor and act against the illegal use of copyright protected material on the Internet
- Ensuring and enforcing responsibility for information quality
- Will law be part of the information overload or solve it?
- Lack of separation between useful and correct information and incorrect and un-useful information
- In what way will the enforcement of rules and regulations on the Internet be coordinated internationally?
- How to deal with an at the same time deterritorialised and reterritorialised global infrastructure in the information society
- Reconciliation of national legal schemes and policies with increasingly porous, permeable or even to a large extent irrelevant national boundaries
- Privacy protection in the surveillance society
- Creating predictable, manageable and universally-applicable approaches to balancing the competing needs of access to information, ensuring integrity of information, and protecting privacy
- New privacy issues due to RFID and GIS convergence
- The formulation of a consistent and useful theory of consent in privacy legislation
- Privacy enhancing identity management – not least in cross border relations
- The right to be left alone
- The relationship between privacy and freedom of expression
- How to regulate, in a globalizing world, converging electronic databases which are collected, stored and distributed by states, companies, NGOs and private citizens
- How can we establish a system, which really helps the citizen to claim his rights, when his privacy has been violated by other citizens
- The balance between privacy and electronic surveillance and processing of personal data for the purpose of fighting crime and acts of terrorism
- How to determine who owns data about individuals and their actions
- Due to the development of information systems, personal data become ever more available to states, businesses, organizations and individuals and necessitates a legal re-evaluation of our classical notion of "privacy"
- Information privacy and the responsible use of public information
- The conflict between citizens’ privacy and government security agendas
- The challenge to personal privacy arising from the accumulation of digital data by state and commercial service providers
- If and how legal regulations of ICT are working
- The increasing incoherence and fragmentation of the rules related to knowledge and information
- To set an organizational arrangement that is able to provide a continuous update of legal aspects of information security in society
- How to reduce the gap in opinion between the law-making elite and ordinary people
- Privacy concerns remaining external to IT systems design
- Most likely a variation of today's unsolved issues, but these could surface in new perspectives
- How to manage new forms and functions of the law
- Where did it all go wrong for the legal profession?
- To establish a holistic view on information security
- Legal effects of electronically signed documents
- Liability for use of data and applications in cloud computing.
- Forgetting computers is inadequate, and enforcement procedures in this matter are still a joke
