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cyberlaw en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek κυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)bor. English cybernetic English cyber- Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *lagą Old Norse lag Old Norse lǫgbor. Old English lagu Middle English lawe English law English cyberlaw From cyber- + law.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, countable, uncountable) Law as it relates to the Internet and computing offences, covering such issues as intellectual property and the blurring of international boundaries.
    • In a recent article in Nature magazine, AI research^([sic]) Kate Crawford and cyberlaw professor Ryan Calo warned that the new wave of excitement about intelligent design was creating dangerous blindspots when it came to the social knock-on effects of replacing humans with robots. 2017 April 18, Philip Oltermann, “Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants'”, in The Guardian, retrieved 30 Jul 2021:

Forms

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cyberlaws Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

IT law

Translations (1)

fi internetoikeus (law as it relates to the internet)