Protection consumer protection values in the fourth industrial revolution
By: Howells, G
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BookPublisher: Journal of Consumer Policy Description: 43(1), Mar, 2020: p.145-175.Subject(s): Digitization, Blockchain, Smart contract, Data, Consumer, Automated vehicles
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Journal of Consumer PolicySummary: We are entering into an era of new technological possibilities. Many benefits will be derived for consumers from the development of data and computer-driven innovation. We will have new products and services and new ways of making and supplying goods and services.Without wanting to inhibit innovation, this article calls for the legal system to remain committed to an ideology and legal framework that supports consumer protection. It will counsel against assuming that the law should give way unduly to the technology agenda, whilst accepting that adaptations should be made and also that there should be a critical review of whether traditional forms of regulation are needed in the Fourth Industrial Age.- Reproduced
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | 43(1), Mar, 2020: p.145-175 | Available | AR123565 |
We are entering into an era of new technological possibilities. Many benefits will be derived for consumers from the development of data and computer-driven innovation. We will have new products and services and new ways of making and supplying goods and services.Without wanting to inhibit innovation, this article calls for the legal system to remain committed to an ideology and legal framework that supports consumer protection. It will counsel against assuming that the law should give way unduly to the technology agenda, whilst accepting that adaptations should be made and also that there should be a critical review of whether traditional forms of regulation are needed in the Fourth Industrial Age.- Reproduced
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