Title: FURTHER ISSUES

Further Issues

Which mandatory legal rules are missing?

Before moving into the issue of technological embodiment of legal norms, we will need to articulate the legal status of profiles, entailing a paradigm shift from personal data to profiles. Which mandatory legal rules are needed to provide adequate transparancy about the profiles that impact our lives?

Which type of negotiations must be supported?

Ambient law should not only embody mandatory legal rules, but also enable negotiations between consumers and service providers. In view of the principle of minimum knowledge asymmetry the power balance between parties and the long-term effects of such negotiations need to be taken into account when designing the technological tools to enable fair transactions.  

M2M communication and HMI (TETs)

After assessing the mandatory legal rules and the types of negotiations that need technological embodiment the technological possibilities need to be assessed, taking into account that legally protected trade secrets and intellectual property may preclude adequate access to profiles.