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The EU strategy 2020 includes ambitious plans for e-regulation that could improve Europe´s competitiveness. However, the European states have very different legal frameworks in this field. This book introduces flagship initiatives and provides a detailed overview and analysis of the current standards and latest developments, offering practical insights and guidelines for practitioners and policy-makers alike. Further, as it discusses the main areas of e-regulation, it can serve as a useful platform for university education in light of the growing need for new kinds of specialists, i.e. IT lawyers. The book concentrates on fields that are directly affected by e-regulation such as cyber-security, databases, computer programs, e-governance, IP and competition law and informatics.

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Tanel Kerikmäe , Introduction: E-Regulation in the European Union. Normative realities and trends.- Tanel Kerikmäe and Pawan Dutt , Conceptualization of emerging legal framework of e-regulation in the European Union.- Katrin Nyman Metcalf , e-Governance in law and by law. The legal framework of e-governance.- Ülle Madise and Priit Vinkel , Internet voting in Estonia: From constitutional debate to evaluation of experience over six elections.- Addi Rull, Ermo Täks, and Alex Norta , Towards software-agent enhanced privacy protection.- Johan Axhamn , Striking a fair balance between the protection of creative content and the need to foster its dissemination: The challenges posed by internet linking and meta search engines.- Mari Männiko , Intermediary service providers´ liability exemptions - Where can we draw the line?.- Kristi Joamets , Civil status registration - More than data collection. EU digital development in promoting the free movement of civil status document.- Agnes Kasper , The fragmented securitization of cyberthreats.- Agnes Kasper , Legal aspects of cyber security in emerging technologies - Smart grids and big data. European answers to security breaches and "common" cybercrime.- Edita Gruodyt and Mindaugas Bilius , Investigating cybercrimes: Theoretical and practical issues.- Maria Claudia Solarte-Vasquez , Reflections on the concrete application of principles of internet governance and the networked information society in the European Union institutionalization process of Alternative Dispute Resolution methods.- Pawan Kumar Dutt and Tanel Kerikmäe , Concepts and problems associated with eDemocracy.

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