This book addresses issues on the nexus of "freedom of" and "property in" information, while acknowledging that both hiding and exposing information may affect our privacy. It inquires into the physics, the technologies, the business models, the governmental strategies and last but not least the legal frameworks concerning access, organisation and control of information. It debates whether it is in the very nature of information to be either free or monopolized, or both. Analysing upcoming power structures, new types of colonization and attempts to replace legal norms with techno-nudging,...
This book addresses issues on the nexus of "freedom of" and "property in" information, while acknowledging that both hiding and exposing informatio...