It often takes place in a legal gray area, since laws governing technology transfer can be vague or nonexistent.
We need some civic tinkering to generate governing technology that comes with relationships.
Opponents of the system say law enforcement officials should be required to get the same kind of court order to use Carnivore as is required for full telephone wiretaps; the F.B.I. argues that it should be able to use the system under the relatively loose rules governing technologies that gather phone numbers dialed by suspects and the numbers of people calling them.
That's because there really aren't any existing laws that govern these technologies.
One of the problems with the spread of high tech is that government policies governing emerging technologies can be incredibly piecemeal, with some areas becoming regulated heavily, and others hardly at all.
Otherwise we will find ourselves governed by technologies whose implications we did not foresee and whose development we chose to neglect.
Any lack of transparency in a country's rule-making and notification procedures can cause problems for companies operating in the energy space, as the standards and rules governing emerging technologies and efficiency standards are still under development and can act as barriers to entry.
In the context of genetics, for example, it has been argued that within a decade developments led to a shift in the norms and principles governing such technologies, from "autonomy, privacy, justice, quality and equity" to "reciprocity, mutuality, solidarity, citizenry and universality" (Knoppers and Chadwick 2005, 75; Chadwick 2011, 54).
Surface engineering technology governs many industrial applications ranging from microelectromechanical system to biological to heavy earth-moving machinery industry.
