Meanings
nouncyberlaw (countable and uncountable, plural cyberlaws)
plural cyberlaws
- InternetcountableuncountableLaw as it relates to the Internet and computing offences, covering such issues as intellectual property and the blurring of international boundaries.First known use 20th c.
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
Origin
- Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
- Englishcyberneticclip.
- Englishcyber-
- Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*lagą
- Old Norselag
- Old Norselǫg
- Old Englishlagu
- Middle Englishlawe
- Englishlaw
- Englishcyberlaw
Translations
Finnish internetoikeus
- internetoikeuslaw as it relates to the internet
Cite this entry
APA
cyberlaw. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberlaw
MLA
“cyberlaw.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberlaw. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cyberlaw,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberlaw.
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