Digital technology are changing how people and businesses work.

The pace of change is both

accelerating and disruptive in nature. This has blurred the boundaries of physical and digital
world. Emerging technologies, growing amount of data and smarter ways of getting information
are changing the way people are interacting ("The impact of the digital revolution", 2021). This
explosion of digital inventions are constantly challenging the legitimacy of the legal framework
that governments needs to have in place to develop, control and use digital technology
(Burgunder, 2011). The fundamental question is being raised. Are ours laws which were
basically made before online commerce existed competent enough to address the legal issues of
the digital world? Some of the shortcoming of the current law like they deal on tangible objects
which in case of digital world is almost non-existent. Similarly, current law is territorial and is
limited to certain boundary whereas digital platform does not have boundary. These and many
other short coming has placed user and intellectual property in a vulnerable situation. ? (Jacobs,
2021).

Some of the issues mentioned are related to intellectual property protection. The protection of
patent, copy right, trade secrets, trademarks are of the utmost priority (Burgunder, 2011 p. 20).
Also the issue of secured payment gateway, jurisdiction problem, protecting the privacy and
information of individuals over the internet are some issues that needs to be addressed by the law
keeping in mind the digital technology. Some of the recent examples also show that digital
technologies are not being regulated in a way that should have been. The Cambridge Analytica
scandal where 87 million data were harvested ("Facebook–Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal|
Business Ethics|Case Study|Case Studies", 2018), Google Street view Car Wi- Fi Scandal &
antitrust case against Google (Armasu, 2019) or apple Siri Scandal (Sathiah, 2019) all have a
common point in them. There lacks a strict and effective legal system that can cover the
comprehensive nature of digital technology.

References

Burgunder, L. (2011). Legal aspects of managing technology (p. 3). Mason, Ohio: South-

Western Cengage Learning.

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Hello Denise,

Some of the concerns you raised are informative especially about the bank loan. But I have a
query after reading your writing. In first line you said you were already hesitant about putting
any sort of sensitive data onto the website and you were worried about the identity theft. But in
you second line you seem to relax after reading the chapter notes. Does that mean that you are
now ok to put your sensitive or any sort of data in digital platform?

Regards

Praveen Lama
Hi Dakota,

I absolutely agree with that big tech companies will never face the legal consequences they
deserve for their infiltrating behavior. Some of the examples to cite are Cambridge Analytica
scandal where 87 million data were harvested ("Facebook–Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal|
Business Ethics|Case Study|Case Studies", 2018), Google Street view Car Wi- Fi Scandal &
antitrust case against Google (Armasu, 2019) or apple Siri Scandal (Sathiah, 2019). In all these
cases the legal consequences were much more lesser than the damage they did.

References

Sathiah, S. (2019). Apple caught in Siri privacy scandal, issues a statement trying to downplay
its severity. Retrieved 12 September 2021, from https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-caught-
in-Siri-privacy-scandal-issues-a-statement-trying-to-downplay-its-
severity.428254.0.html#:~:text=Apple%20has%20been%20caught%20in%20a%20fresh
%20privacy,are%20unaware%20this%20is%20happening.%20Sanjiv%20Sathiah%2C
%2007%2F27%2F2019

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal|Business Ethics|Case Study|Case Studies. (2018).

Retrieved 12 September 2021, from https://www.icmrindia.org/casestudies/catalogue/Business
%20Ethics/Cambridge%20Analytica-Excerpts.htm

Armasu, L. (2019). Google Escapes Its Biggest Privacy Scandal Virtually Unscathed. Retrieved
12 September 2021, from https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-wifi-street-cars-spy-
lawsuit-settlement,39998.html

Hello Ribert,

You are absolutely right. Online privacy was, is and always will be the biggest issue. And I
sometimes think will this issue ever be solved? The reason I think so is companies are becoming
technologically sophisticated to intrude in to our private life in the name of cookies policy or
some other form of privacy statement.

Regards Praveen Lama