Socio-Legal Study of Hacking - Breaking and Remaking Law and Technology

The relationship between hacking and the law has always been complex and conflict-ridden. This book examines the relations and interactions between hacking and the law with a view to understanding how hackers influence and are influenced by technology laws and policies. In our increasingly digital and connected world where hackers play a significant role in determining the structures, configurations and operations of the networked information society, this book delivers an interdisciplinary study of the practices, norms and values of hackers and how they conflict and correspond with the aims and aspirations of hacking-related laws. Describing and analyzing the legal and normative impact of hacking, as well as proposing new approaches to its regulation and governance, this book makes an essential contribution to understanding the socio-technical changes, and consequent legal challenges, faced by our contemporary connected society.

List of contents

1: Hacking and Law
2: Hacker Culture
3: Hacker Norms and Values
4: Laws on Hacking
5: Hacking’s Interactions with Law
6: Normative Conclusions and Areas of Law Reform

About the author

Michael Anthony C. Dizon is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He previously worked as an information and communications technology lawyer and researcher for institutions and organisations in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines.

Summary

The relationship between hacking and the law has always been complex and conflict-ridden. This book examines the relations and interactions between hacking and the law with a view to understanding how hackers influence and are influenced by technology laws and policies.

Product details

• Authors: Dizon, Michael Anthony C. Dizon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138560826
• ISBN: 978-1-138-56082-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Law, Science and Society; Law, Science and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; COMPUTERS / Security / General, LAW / Communications, LAW / Computer & Internet, Network Security, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Computer security, Computer fraud & hacking, Computer fraud and hacking, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, COMPUTERS / Security / Network Security, IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations, IT & Communications law