The penultimate chapter deals with privacy in the digital domain. After a short overview of international developments in relation to privacy, the chapter examines the emergence of privacy laws in Australia and direct and indirect avenues of redress for a breach of privacy in Australia and how these may operate in the digital domain. The final chapter looks at the legal issues associated with information technology and procedural matters. The first matter that is dealt with is computer-generated evidence, including the types and admissibility of that evidence at common law and under statute. Given the pervasiveness of the Internet and the exponential growth of e-commerce, any good work on informational technology and the law must include a section on jurisdictional issues.
Chapter Seven concludes with such a section.
This section highlights the jurisdictional issues that may arise in cases involving trans-national disputes or unlawful activity. Recent developments in relation to the Draft Hague Convention on International Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil Matters and its potential impact in cross-border litigation are not canvassed in Informational Technology , but this would once again appear to be entirely due to publication deadlines, not any fault of the author. One exceptional feature of Informational Technology is the enormous amount of research Akindemowo has performed in writing this work. Almost every page of the work is extensively footnoted. It is uncommon to find so many useful references in the one work.