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This chapter first describes the standard economic analysis of privacy, data protection and surveillance, looking at the costs and benefits to different parties and the incentives each therefore has, as well as the aggregate social welfare impacts of their decisions. It then considers the market...
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The current tax laws are based heavily on concepts of physical geography, such as controlling premises and physical equipment or employing staff in the jurisdiction. The geographical concepts do not accommodate the cloud business model in any sensible way. As a consequence, the taxation of cloud...
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The movement of personal data across national borders is fundamental to the Internet economy. Yet the laws that govern …
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This paper examines how Internet ventures operate as intermediaries serving both upstream sources of content and … applications as well as downstream consumers. Alibaba, Baidu, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Tencent and other Internet … considers how governments can respond to the onset of price and quality of service discrimination within the Internet ecosystem …
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The evolution of the Internet has come to a point where almost at the same time, governments all around the world feel … the need for legislation to regulate the use of the Internet. In preparing the legislation, various governments and their …
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Net neutrality, the principle of non-discrimination by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) between different kinds of … Internet traffic and non-restriction of legal content, sites and platforms, has become increasingly prominent in … comparison made to approaches to net neutrality in other parts of the world, such as the USA, where a fierce debate has been …
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offering a triple play package of wired and wireless telephone service, video and Internet access. As well they need to develop … providers achieve profitability. Internet ventures have come up with many different business models including ones that offer … that identifies cost causers. Internet and telecommunications business models rarely jibe, even though convergence and …
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Internet, we have no idea what it is that we are talking about. Countless courts, legislative bodies, and packs of pundits have … sought to produce definitions of The Internet. Their attempts have at times been poor and misconstrued. Many definitions do …, imaginative, and perhaps misdirected policy and law. Is it possible to formulate a good definition of The Internet? Is The …
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Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) provide end users with access to and from the Internet cloud. In addition to …, but downstream end users may have a limited choice of ISP options for first and last mile Internet access. Regardless of … the scope of retail Internet access competition, consumers generally select only one ISP to handle all traffic …
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In recent years, a growing number of commentators have raised concerns that the decisions made by Internet … solve a number of classic economic problems associated with the Internet. In short, intermediation of mass media content is …
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