PART Ⅰ GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1
1 Introduction 3
2 The regulatory environment: UK Biobank, eBay and Wikipedia 24
3 Four key regulatory challenges 46
4 Technology as a regulatory tool: DNA profiling and Marper 72
PART Ⅱ REGULATORY PRUDENCE AND PRECAUTION 109
5 Regulatory prudence Ⅰ: health, safety and environment: GM crops, nanoparticles and sound science 111
6 Regulatory prudence Ⅱ: precaution 137
PART Ⅲ REGULATORY LEGITIMACY 167
7 The legitimacy of the regulatory environment: basic ideas 169
8 Key boundary-marking concepts 188
9 Human rights as boundary markers 225
10 A look at procedural legitimacy: the role of public participation in technology regulation 246
PART Ⅳ REGULATORY EFFECTIVENESS 269
11 Regulatory effectiveness Ⅰ 271
12 Regulatory effectiveness Ⅱ: failure by regulators 296
13 Regulatory effectiveness Ⅲ: resistance by regulatees 318
14 Regulatory effectiveness Ⅳ: third-party interference and disruptive externalities 342
PART Ⅴ REGULATORY CONNECTION 369
15 Regulatory connection Ⅰ: getting connected 371
16 Regulatory connection Ⅱ: disconnection and sustainability 398
CONCLUDING OVERVIEW 421
17 From law to code: the surveillance society and Marper revisited 423
Index 453