Special issue: Legal aspects of mobile commerce and pervasive computing: privacy, marketing, contracting and liability Issues

International Journal of Private Law 4(2) 2011

• Why privacy discussions about pervasive online customer profiling should focus on the expanding roles of third-parties
• Should geographic location data be regarded as sensitive? – some thoughts
• A comparative analysis of legal aspects of electronic contracts in Brazil
• What we know and what we do not know – the legal challenges for international commercial contract formation in a pervasive computing environment
• Payments made by means of mobile phones
• Allocating liability in the event of fraudulent use of electronic payment instruments and the Belgian mobile payment instrument PingPing
• The liability of mobile operators for the content of independent content providers to mobile commerce networks in the European Union: does self-regulation pave the way for new EU rules?
• From legal code to digital code: making software services rights-aware
• Cross-border litigation and ADR mechanisms in disputes concerning mobile computing in the EU