International, National, and Industry-Specific Regulations

Information Systems and Intellectual Property

The rise of information systems has resulted in rethinking how to deal with intellectual property. From the increase in patent applications swamping the government's patent office to the new laws that must be put in place to enforce copyright protection, digital technologies have impacted our behavior.

Privacy

The term privacy has many definitions, but for purposes here, privacy will mean the ability to control information about oneself. The ability to maintain our privacy has eroded substantially in the past decades, due to information systems.