The Responsibilities of Online Service Providers
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Beschreibung
This volume focuses on the responsibilities of online service providers (OSPs) in contemporary societies. It examines the complexity and global dimensions of the rapidly evolving and serious challenges posed by the exponential development of Internet services and resources. It looks at the major actors – such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo! – and their significant influence on the informational environment and users’ interactions within it, as well as the responsibilities and liabilities such influence entails. It discusses the position of OSPs as information gatekeepers and how they have gone from offering connecting and information-sharing services to paying members to providing open, free infrastructure and applications that facilitate digital expression and the communication of information. The book seeks consensus on the principles that should shape OSPs’ responsibilities and practices, taking into account business ethics and policies.Finally, it discusses the rights of users and international regulations that are in place or currently lacking.
This volume focuses on the responsibilities of online service providers (OSPs) in contemporary societies. It examines the complexity and global dimensions of the rapidly evolving and serious challenges posed by the exponential development of Internet services and resources. It looks at the major actors – such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo! – and their significant influence on the informational environment and users’ interactions within it, as well as the responsibilities and liabilities such influence entails. It discusses the position of OSPs as information gatekeepers and how they have gone from offering connecting and information-sharing services to paying members to providing open, free infrastructure and applications that facilitate digital expression and the communication of information. The book seeks consensus on the principles that should shape OSPs’ responsibilities and practices, taking into account business ethics and policies. Finally, it discusses the rights ofusers and international regulations that are in place or currently lacking.
Provides a comprehensive, overarching and multidisciplinary account of the responsibilities of Online Service Providers (OSP's) Tackles the highly relevant and complex issue of OSP's responsibilities and the principles required to regulate their conduct Contains contributions from leading experts in business ethics, information and computer ethics, law and public policy, politics and international sciences and social sciences
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Mariarosaria Taddeo
Themen in »The Responsibilities of Online Service Providers«
Civic responsibility Freedom of speech Right to be forgotten Digital rights Internet governance Intellectual property Moral responsibilities of online service providers Public-private diplomatic relations Data breach notification duties What Google, eBay, UPC TeleKabel Wien and Delfi have in common EU Legal Framework Regulating OSPs’ security obligations Business ethics and policies Social responsibilities of online service providers