{"id":613,"date":"2021-01-22T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=613"},"modified":"2021-01-09T18:43:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T18:43:13","slug":"law-for-computer-scientists-and-other-folks-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Law for Computer Scientists and other folks (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/files\/2021\/01\/writing-1209121_1920-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/files\/2021\/01\/writing-1209121_1920-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/files\/2021\/01\/writing-1209121_1920-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/files\/2021\/01\/writing-1209121_1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/files\/2021\/01\/writing-1209121_1920-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/files\/2021\/01\/writing-1209121_1920-1320x991.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/files\/2021\/01\/writing-1209121_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lawforcomputerscientists.pubpub.org\/\">Law for Computer Scientists (pubpub.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently,\na colleague of mine has recommended me this book. At first, I thought it would\nbe a bit like &#8220;Law for dummies&#8221;, but it turned out to be much better\nthan I actually thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book\nis about how we, as software engineers, should look at the legal systems. It\nposes more questions than it actually answers, but it provides a number of\ngreat examples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nsincerely recommend this book. The following parts have captured my attention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Existence\n     of different types of law and jurisdictions: national, international and\n     supernational. Data and computer programs are perfect examples of\n     different jurisdictions and the fact that different types of laws apply. <\/li><li>What constitutes data,\n     meta-data and sensitive data. In Chapter 5, the authors mention that we\n     cannot process sensitive data very easily, e.g. data about religion,\n     gender, etc. Then, how can we make the systems fair and unbiased if we\n     cannot process this kind of data?<\/li><li>Cybercrimes and how to deal\n     with them. The author provides great examples of legislation that is\n     supposed to help to fight cybercrime. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>However,\nthe best is always left for last and this book is no exception. The author\nprovides a great discussion on the future of our legal systems. She does that\nby discussing the concept of personhood for AI or any other complex system.\nAlthough it sounds like a distant future, it is closer than we think. EU has\nalready started to work on this kind of legislation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally,\nI love the fact that the author brings in the three laws of robotics by Asimov\n&#8211; a real connection to computer science and software engineering. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law for Computer Scientists (pubpub.org) Recently, a colleague of mine has recommended me this book. At first, I thought it would be a bit like &#8220;Law for dummies&#8221;, but it turned out to be much better than I actually thought. The book is about how we, as software engineers, should look at the legal systems. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Law for Computer Scientists and other folks (review)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}