CLaw 2017
Vancouver
BC
Canada
With cloud computing continuing to revolutionise the provision of IT services, and the promises and threats of the Internet of Things (IoT) growing by the day, legal and policy concerns surrounding technology are increasing salience and prominence. Existing and proposed regulatory and governance regimes place obligations on those who manage (process, analyse, use, and collect) data. The end-users of applications provisioned in the cloud and IoT also have certain rights that must be respected – various parties all bear varying degrees of responsibility, which must be properly managed.
Managing these rights and responsibilities is becoming increasingly complex, both technically and legally, particularly due to the emergence of new cloud services and models, as well as because of movements towards collaborative, decentralised and mobile clouds. For instance, the cloud will play an integral role in supporting the evolving IoT, which exacerbates issues of scale and data management while bringing real (physical) world considerations. The increasing prevalence of machine learning technology adds another degree of complexity.
Building on the successes of the previous workshops, CLaw 2017 aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary exploration of tech-legal challenges as regards emerging systems technologies.