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The following chapter discusses various legal aspects concerning the implementation and usage of (software) agents. The underlying question if and how agents can issue legally effective declarations of intention is paramount in order to enable any reasonable usage of agents and, therefore, evaluated in greater detail in Section 3.2. Furthermore, the issue of how to deal with potential errors in agents’ declarations (Section 3.3), the requirements of agents’ signatures (Section 3.4) as well as liability (Section 3.5) and consumer protection issues (Section 3.6) are discussed. Finally, data protection issues and their implications on the usage of agents (Section 3.7) are scrutinized.
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Nitschke, T. (2006). Legal Consequences of Agent Deployment. In: Kirn, S., Herzog, O., Lockemann, P., Spaniol, O. (eds) Multiagent Engineering. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32062-8_28
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