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The Responsibilities of Online Service Providers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (339 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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ISBN:
  • 9783319478524
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  • 025.04
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: New Civic Responsibilities for Online Service Providers -- References -- Part I: Responsibilities and Liabilities -- Chapter 2: The Moral Responsibilities of Online Service Providers -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 LoAIN: Moral Responsibilities of OSPs in the Web -- 2.2.1 Managing Access to Information in the Web: Information Skewing -- 2.2.2 Internet Censorship and Harmful Content -- 2.2.2.1 Internet Censorship and Freedom of Speech -- 2.2.3 OSPs' Responsibilities and User Privacy -- 2.2.3.1 The Right to Be Forgotten and OSPs' Responsibilities -- 2.3 LOAON: OSPs' Moral Responsibilities on the Web -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Immunity of Internet Intermediaries Reconsidered? -- 3.1 Immunity and Liability in the New Digital Era: A Fine Balancing Act -- 3.1.1 Establishing Links on the Liability of Intermediaries -- 3.1.2 The 'Safe Harbour' of ECD -- 3.1.3 Liability and the Protection of Other Fundamental Rights -- 3.2 Possible Solutions -- 3.2.1 Signs from the ECJ Case Law -- 3.2.2 Notice and Take-Down Procedures -- 3.2.3 Contractual Clauses -- 3.2.4 Self-Regulation -- 3.2.5 Technical Methods -- 3.3 Accepting That Intermediaries May Block or Remove Unlawful Content -- 3.4 Intermediaries Acting as Quasi Judges -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: Is Google Responsible for Providing Fair and Unbiased Results? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Why Google? -- 4.3 What Are Fair and Unbiased Results? -- 4.4 Providing A Comprehensive and Fresh Index -- 4.4.1 Issues with Comprehensiveness -- 4.4.2 Issues with Freshness -- 4.4.3 Issues with Deliberate Choices Made by the Search Engines -- 4.5 Search Engines' Algorithmic Interpretation of the Web's Content -- 4.6 Responsibilities -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References.
Chapter 5: Speaking Truth to/as Victims - A Jurisprudential Analysis of Data Breach Notification Laws -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Data Breach Notification Duties: Telling Customers the Whole Ugly Truth -- 5.2.1 Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practise To Deceive! -- 5.2.2 When Sorry Is the Hardest Word to Say: Data Breach Notification Duties in Law -- 5.3 Towards a Jurisprudence of Data Breach Notification Duties -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Did the Romans Get It Right? What Delfi, Google, eBay, and UPC TeleKabel Wien Have in Common -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Safe Harbours in the E-Commerce Directive -- 6.3 Case Law of the European Courts -- 6.3.1 Delfi -- 6.3.1.1 Facts -- 6.3.1.2 Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights -- 6.3.1.3 Fierce Criticism -- 6.3.2 Delfi Through the Lens of CJEU Case Law -- 6.3.2.1 Active vs. Passive: Neutrality Requirement (Google Adwords) -- 6.3.2.2 Actual vs. Constructive Knowledge: Diligent Economic Operator Criterion (eBay) -- 6.3.2.3 Reasonable Measures (UPC Telekabel Wien) -- 6.3.2.4 The Special Case of News Publishers (Papasavvas) -- 6.4 The Role of Roman Law and Ethics -- 6.4.1 From the "Bonus Pater Familias"… -- 6.4.2 …to Press Ethics… -- 6.4.3 …and Back to the Ice-Roads -- 6.5 Concluding Remarks: A Duty of Care for the Courts -- References -- Case Law -- Legislation -- Ethical Codes -- Literature -- Part II: Business Ethics &amp -- Corporate Social Responsibilities -- Chapter 7: Responsibilities of OSPs from a Business Ethics Point of View -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Use of Moralising in the OSP Debate -- 7.3 Economic Aspect: The Concept and Role of Competition -- 7.4 Philosophical Aspect: The Role of Corporate Responsibility -- 7.5 Collective Responsibility: Philosophical and Economic Aspects -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Chapter 8: Myth or Promise? The Corporate Social Responsibilities of Online Service Providers for Human Rights -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Contextualizing CSR -- 8.1.2 International: The Guiding Principles -- 8.1.2.1 European-Level: European Commission ICT Sector Guidance -- 8.1.2.2 Multi-stakeholder Industry Initiatives: The GNI -- 8.1.2.3 The Future -- References -- Chapter 9: Online Service Providers: A New and Unique Species of the Firm? -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Birth and Infancy of OSPs -- 9.3 The Growth Phase of OSPs -- 9.4 Geographical Distribution of OSPs Users -- 9.4.1 Why Do OSPs Exist? -- 9.5 Any Limits to Growth for OSPs? -- 9.6 The Intermediary Role and Rapid Network Effects -- 9.6.1 Examples of OSPs -- 9.6.1.1 Growth Pattern -- 9.6.1.2 Life Span -- 9.7 Conclusion and Further Research -- References -- Chapter 10: Online Service Providers as Human Rights Arbiters -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Online Freedom of Expression -- 10.3 EU Regulation in Conflict with Freedom of Expression -- 10.3.1 Vertical and Horizontal Human Rights Conflicts -- 10.3.2 Intermediary Liability -- 10.4 An Alternative Approach - Human Rights Responsibility of Private Actors -- 10.5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: User-Generated Content: How Broad Licensing Terms Threaten the Web -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 A License Unchecked: Harms of Overly Broad UGC Licenses -- 11.2.1 Legal Uncertainty -- 11.2.1.1 Uncertainty Due to Interaction with Different Governing Laws -- 11.2.1.2 Uncertainty Due to Wording of Licencing Clauses -- 11.2.2 Removing Control from Users - Undermining the Trust -- 11.2.2.1 Privacy Policies Do Not Offer Sufficient Protections -- 11.2.2.2 Restatements of Users' Ownership of Content Are Insignificant -- 11.2.2.3 Reputation Management Is Not an Effective Safeguard -- 11.3 Possible Solutions -- 11.4 Conclusion -- References.
Part III: Users' Rights &amp -- International Regulations -- Chapter 12: Online Service Providers' Liability, Copyright Infringement, and Freedom of Expression: Could Europe Learn from Canada? -- 12.1 Copyright Infringement and Free Speech in the Online Environment: The Key Role of OSPs -- 12.2 The European Way: Directive 2000/31 -- 12.2.1 Interpretative Developments of the Court of Justice of the European Union -- 12.2.2 The Need for a Notification System -- 12.3 The Canadian Approach to OSPs' Liability for Copyright Infringement -- 12.4 Conclusions, Could Europe Learn from Canada? Suggestions for a Much Needed Notification Regime -- References -- Chapter 13: Non-financial Disclosures in the Tech Sector: Furthering the Trend -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 History of Transparency Reporting: Actors and Drivers -- 13.2.1 The Ideological Roots -- 13.2.2 Initiatives for Increased Corporate Transparency -- 13.2.2.1 UN Guiding Principles on Business &amp -- Human Rights -- 13.2.2.2 Global Network Initiative -- 13.2.3 Effects of Snowden Revelations -- 13.3 Furthering the Transparency Reporting Phenomenon: Current Outlook -- 13.4 Transparency as an Enabler for an Ethical Framework for OSPs -- 13.5 Conclusion: Transparency Reporting Now and in the Future -- References -- Chapter 14: Should We Treat Big Data as a Public Good? -- 14.1 Introduction: A New Bright World of Big Data -- 14.2 Information as a Public Good -- 14.3 Why Should We Treat Big Data as Public Good? -- 14.4 Towards New Deal Between Private and Public Interest -- References -- Chapter 15: Internet Intermediaries as Responsible Actors? Why It Is Time to Rethink the E-Commerce Directive as Well -- 15.1 Persisting Divergences -- 15.2 Minimum Standards -- 15.3 Exclusion of Data Protection Law Issues -- 15.4 The Distinction Between Active and Passive Intermediary Service Providers -- 15.5 Conclusions.
References -- Chapter 16: Towards Fostering Compliance by Design -- Drawing Designers into the Regulatory Frame -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Data and the Porosity of Our Private Sphere -- 16.2.1 So, What Is Privacy by Design? -- 16.3 Regulation and Design -- 16.4 Designers, Design Practice, and the Need for Flexible Instruments -- 16.5 The Use of Ideation-Based Instruments with Designers -- 16.6 Designing for Privacy: Using Ideation Cards to Articulate Privacy Concerns -- 16.6.1 Developing and Testing a Data Protection Ideation Deck -- 16.6.2 Trialing the Cards with Designers -- 16.7 Conclusions -- References -- Part IV: Commentaries -- Chapter 17: Does Great Power Come with Great Responsibility? The Need to Talk About Corporate Political Responsibility -- 17.1 Introduction: Does the Power of OSPs Go Unrecognized? -- 17.2 OSP Power in the Global Information Society -- 17.3 Global Power, No Global Regulation and Limited Accountability -- 17.4 Why We Need to Talk About Corporate Political Responsibility -- References -- Chapter 18: The Economic Impact of Online Intermediaries -- 18.1 The Political Economy of Platforms -- 18.2 Defining Online Intermediaries and Platforms -- 18.3 Online Intermediaries in Economic Inputs and Outputs -- 18.4 Productivity Gains from Online Intermediaries -- 18.5 Online Intermediaries and Cross-Border Trade -- 18.6 The Political Economy of Online Advertising -- 18.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 19: Online Data Privacy and the Justification of the Market -- 19.1 The Federal Communication Commission's New Proposed Rules -- 19.2 An Ethical Justification of Market Practices -- 19.3 The Indirect Justification of the Market -- References.
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Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: New Civic Responsibilities for Online Service Providers -- References -- Part I: Responsibilities and Liabilities -- Chapter 2: The Moral Responsibilities of Online Service Providers -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 LoAIN: Moral Responsibilities of OSPs in the Web -- 2.2.1 Managing Access to Information in the Web: Information Skewing -- 2.2.2 Internet Censorship and Harmful Content -- 2.2.2.1 Internet Censorship and Freedom of Speech -- 2.2.3 OSPs' Responsibilities and User Privacy -- 2.2.3.1 The Right to Be Forgotten and OSPs' Responsibilities -- 2.3 LOAON: OSPs' Moral Responsibilities on the Web -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Immunity of Internet Intermediaries Reconsidered? -- 3.1 Immunity and Liability in the New Digital Era: A Fine Balancing Act -- 3.1.1 Establishing Links on the Liability of Intermediaries -- 3.1.2 The 'Safe Harbour' of ECD -- 3.1.3 Liability and the Protection of Other Fundamental Rights -- 3.2 Possible Solutions -- 3.2.1 Signs from the ECJ Case Law -- 3.2.2 Notice and Take-Down Procedures -- 3.2.3 Contractual Clauses -- 3.2.4 Self-Regulation -- 3.2.5 Technical Methods -- 3.3 Accepting That Intermediaries May Block or Remove Unlawful Content -- 3.4 Intermediaries Acting as Quasi Judges -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: Is Google Responsible for Providing Fair and Unbiased Results? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Why Google? -- 4.3 What Are Fair and Unbiased Results? -- 4.4 Providing A Comprehensive and Fresh Index -- 4.4.1 Issues with Comprehensiveness -- 4.4.2 Issues with Freshness -- 4.4.3 Issues with Deliberate Choices Made by the Search Engines -- 4.5 Search Engines' Algorithmic Interpretation of the Web's Content -- 4.6 Responsibilities -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 5: Speaking Truth to/as Victims - A Jurisprudential Analysis of Data Breach Notification Laws -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Data Breach Notification Duties: Telling Customers the Whole Ugly Truth -- 5.2.1 Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practise To Deceive! -- 5.2.2 When Sorry Is the Hardest Word to Say: Data Breach Notification Duties in Law -- 5.3 Towards a Jurisprudence of Data Breach Notification Duties -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Did the Romans Get It Right? What Delfi, Google, eBay, and UPC TeleKabel Wien Have in Common -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Safe Harbours in the E-Commerce Directive -- 6.3 Case Law of the European Courts -- 6.3.1 Delfi -- 6.3.1.1 Facts -- 6.3.1.2 Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights -- 6.3.1.3 Fierce Criticism -- 6.3.2 Delfi Through the Lens of CJEU Case Law -- 6.3.2.1 Active vs. Passive: Neutrality Requirement (Google Adwords) -- 6.3.2.2 Actual vs. Constructive Knowledge: Diligent Economic Operator Criterion (eBay) -- 6.3.2.3 Reasonable Measures (UPC Telekabel Wien) -- 6.3.2.4 The Special Case of News Publishers (Papasavvas) -- 6.4 The Role of Roman Law and Ethics -- 6.4.1 From the "Bonus Pater Familias"… -- 6.4.2 …to Press Ethics… -- 6.4.3 …and Back to the Ice-Roads -- 6.5 Concluding Remarks: A Duty of Care for the Courts -- References -- Case Law -- Legislation -- Ethical Codes -- Literature -- Part II: Business Ethics &amp -- Corporate Social Responsibilities -- Chapter 7: Responsibilities of OSPs from a Business Ethics Point of View -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Use of Moralising in the OSP Debate -- 7.3 Economic Aspect: The Concept and Role of Competition -- 7.4 Philosophical Aspect: The Role of Corporate Responsibility -- 7.5 Collective Responsibility: Philosophical and Economic Aspects -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Chapter 8: Myth or Promise? The Corporate Social Responsibilities of Online Service Providers for Human Rights -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Contextualizing CSR -- 8.1.2 International: The Guiding Principles -- 8.1.2.1 European-Level: European Commission ICT Sector Guidance -- 8.1.2.2 Multi-stakeholder Industry Initiatives: The GNI -- 8.1.2.3 The Future -- References -- Chapter 9: Online Service Providers: A New and Unique Species of the Firm? -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Birth and Infancy of OSPs -- 9.3 The Growth Phase of OSPs -- 9.4 Geographical Distribution of OSPs Users -- 9.4.1 Why Do OSPs Exist? -- 9.5 Any Limits to Growth for OSPs? -- 9.6 The Intermediary Role and Rapid Network Effects -- 9.6.1 Examples of OSPs -- 9.6.1.1 Growth Pattern -- 9.6.1.2 Life Span -- 9.7 Conclusion and Further Research -- References -- Chapter 10: Online Service Providers as Human Rights Arbiters -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Online Freedom of Expression -- 10.3 EU Regulation in Conflict with Freedom of Expression -- 10.3.1 Vertical and Horizontal Human Rights Conflicts -- 10.3.2 Intermediary Liability -- 10.4 An Alternative Approach - Human Rights Responsibility of Private Actors -- 10.5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: User-Generated Content: How Broad Licensing Terms Threaten the Web -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 A License Unchecked: Harms of Overly Broad UGC Licenses -- 11.2.1 Legal Uncertainty -- 11.2.1.1 Uncertainty Due to Interaction with Different Governing Laws -- 11.2.1.2 Uncertainty Due to Wording of Licencing Clauses -- 11.2.2 Removing Control from Users - Undermining the Trust -- 11.2.2.1 Privacy Policies Do Not Offer Sufficient Protections -- 11.2.2.2 Restatements of Users' Ownership of Content Are Insignificant -- 11.2.2.3 Reputation Management Is Not an Effective Safeguard -- 11.3 Possible Solutions -- 11.4 Conclusion -- References.

Part III: Users' Rights &amp -- International Regulations -- Chapter 12: Online Service Providers' Liability, Copyright Infringement, and Freedom of Expression: Could Europe Learn from Canada? -- 12.1 Copyright Infringement and Free Speech in the Online Environment: The Key Role of OSPs -- 12.2 The European Way: Directive 2000/31 -- 12.2.1 Interpretative Developments of the Court of Justice of the European Union -- 12.2.2 The Need for a Notification System -- 12.3 The Canadian Approach to OSPs' Liability for Copyright Infringement -- 12.4 Conclusions, Could Europe Learn from Canada? Suggestions for a Much Needed Notification Regime -- References -- Chapter 13: Non-financial Disclosures in the Tech Sector: Furthering the Trend -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 History of Transparency Reporting: Actors and Drivers -- 13.2.1 The Ideological Roots -- 13.2.2 Initiatives for Increased Corporate Transparency -- 13.2.2.1 UN Guiding Principles on Business &amp -- Human Rights -- 13.2.2.2 Global Network Initiative -- 13.2.3 Effects of Snowden Revelations -- 13.3 Furthering the Transparency Reporting Phenomenon: Current Outlook -- 13.4 Transparency as an Enabler for an Ethical Framework for OSPs -- 13.5 Conclusion: Transparency Reporting Now and in the Future -- References -- Chapter 14: Should We Treat Big Data as a Public Good? -- 14.1 Introduction: A New Bright World of Big Data -- 14.2 Information as a Public Good -- 14.3 Why Should We Treat Big Data as Public Good? -- 14.4 Towards New Deal Between Private and Public Interest -- References -- Chapter 15: Internet Intermediaries as Responsible Actors? Why It Is Time to Rethink the E-Commerce Directive as Well -- 15.1 Persisting Divergences -- 15.2 Minimum Standards -- 15.3 Exclusion of Data Protection Law Issues -- 15.4 The Distinction Between Active and Passive Intermediary Service Providers -- 15.5 Conclusions.

References -- Chapter 16: Towards Fostering Compliance by Design -- Drawing Designers into the Regulatory Frame -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Data and the Porosity of Our Private Sphere -- 16.2.1 So, What Is Privacy by Design? -- 16.3 Regulation and Design -- 16.4 Designers, Design Practice, and the Need for Flexible Instruments -- 16.5 The Use of Ideation-Based Instruments with Designers -- 16.6 Designing for Privacy: Using Ideation Cards to Articulate Privacy Concerns -- 16.6.1 Developing and Testing a Data Protection Ideation Deck -- 16.6.2 Trialing the Cards with Designers -- 16.7 Conclusions -- References -- Part IV: Commentaries -- Chapter 17: Does Great Power Come with Great Responsibility? The Need to Talk About Corporate Political Responsibility -- 17.1 Introduction: Does the Power of OSPs Go Unrecognized? -- 17.2 OSP Power in the Global Information Society -- 17.3 Global Power, No Global Regulation and Limited Accountability -- 17.4 Why We Need to Talk About Corporate Political Responsibility -- References -- Chapter 18: The Economic Impact of Online Intermediaries -- 18.1 The Political Economy of Platforms -- 18.2 Defining Online Intermediaries and Platforms -- 18.3 Online Intermediaries in Economic Inputs and Outputs -- 18.4 Productivity Gains from Online Intermediaries -- 18.5 Online Intermediaries and Cross-Border Trade -- 18.6 The Political Economy of Online Advertising -- 18.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 19: Online Data Privacy and the Justification of the Market -- 19.1 The Federal Communication Commission's New Proposed Rules -- 19.2 An Ethical Justification of Market Practices -- 19.3 The Indirect Justification of the Market -- References.

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