This book deals with questions of democracy and governance relating to new technologies. The deployment and application of new technologies is often accompanied with uncertainty as to their long-term (un)intended impacts. New technologies also raise questions about the limits of the law as the line between harmful and beneficial effects is often difficult to draw.

Covers a wide range of issues (democracy and governance, market regulation of new technologies and data protection concerns)

Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Regulating New Technologies in Times of Change.- Chapter 2. Regulating New Technologies in Uncertain Times.- Part II: New Technologies and Impacts on Democratic Governance.- Chapter 3. Between Freedom and Regulation: Investigating Community Standards for Enhancing Scientific Robustness of Citizen Science.- Chapter 4. The Legal Smart City: Ensuring a Rights-Based Approach To Emerging Technologies In City Places.- Chapter 5. Automated Driving and the Future of Traffic Law.- Chapter 6. Coercive Neuroimaging Technologies in Criminal Law in Europe.- Part III: New Technologies and Market Regulation.- Chapter 7. Planting the Seeds of Market Power: Digital Agriculture, Farmers' Autonomy, and the Role of Competition Policy.- Chapter 8. Sharing Data and Privacy in the Platform Economy: The Right to Data Portability and "Porting Rights".- Chapter 9. Regulating Smart Distributed Generation Electricity Systems in the European Union.- Part IV: The Data in NewTechnologies.- a. Utilization of Data.- Chapter 10. A Public Database as a Way Towards More Effective Algorithm Regulation and Transparency?.- Chapter 11. Access to and Re-use of Government Data and the Use of Big Data in Healthcare.- Chapter 12. Predicting and Policing Risk: The Use of Big Data by National Law Enforcement.- b. Protection of Personal Data.- Chapter 13. Regulating Data Re-Use for Research: The Challenges of Innovation and Incipient Social Norms.- Chapter 14. European Cloud Service Data Protection Certification.- Chapter 15. Data Privacy Laws Response to Ransomware Attacks: A Multi-Jurisdictional Analysis.- Part V: Conclusion.- Chapter 16. Concluding Observations: The Regulation of Technology - What Lies Ahead - and Where Do We Want to End Up?.