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Regulating the Speed of Innovation: A Legal and Ethical Framework for 6G Deployment in Smart Societies

Title
Regulating the Speed of Innovation: A Legal and Ethical Framework for 6G Deployment in Smart Societies
Creator
Solanki, Shashank; Verma, Vijeta; Pandey, Vijaishree Dubey
Description
The expected use of 6G technologies contains unmatched breakthroughs in hyperconnectivity, real-time holographic communication, and AI-supported immersivity. There is, however, in this technological leap, a complex legal-ethical-regulatory issue scene that must be addressed now, worldwide. This chapter provides a cross-disciplinary argument on a missing legal regime that can best govern 6G-enabled ecosystems and especially referring to the governance of the real-time artificial intelligence, XR/VR applications, the privacy consequences surrounding data, and nanobots and human rights concerns in a 6G future. This chapter can be taken as comparative legal, following which the emerging 6G regulatory principles are explored in the example of the European Union (Digital Services Act, AI Act), United States (AI Bill of Rights, FCC policies), and India (Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023). It also closes in foreign legal materials such as the Budapest Conference on Cybercrime and General Comment No. 25 (2021) on the right to privacy in the online world of the UN Human Rights Committee. The e-Governance model of Estonia, with significant use of AI and XR to enhance the functionality of the communication network is analyzed as a case study in this view to show the potential, as well as the challenges such hyper-automation can bring about. This chapter is then contrasted with the situation in China, which currently has a 6G surveillance infrastructure and explains why algorithms, mass surveillance, and illegal profiling are risky without some regulation. Besides, this chapter explores transnational data transfer, cyber sovereignty, and cross-border information law enforcement, which require global uniformity by all nations. It is insisted that the precautionary principle and technology impact assessments (TIAs) must be conducted as prerequisites to widespread 6G implementation in smart cities, smart tourism, and healthcare fields. The chapter ends by proposing an International 6G Governance Charter expressing the need to secure legally binding protection of AI-integrated XR systems, the obligation to be transparent, and enforcement-based rights of users within the ultra-fast communication space. 2026 selection and editorial matter, Upinder Kaur, Aparna Kumari, Hemant Kumar Saini, Surbhi B. Khan, and Mariya Ouaissa; individual chapters, the contributors.
Source
Landscaping 6G: Unlocking the Power of Ultra-Fast Communication;pp.45-64
Date
01-01-2026
Publisher
CRC Press
Coverage
Solanki S., School of Law, CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India; Verma V., School of Law, CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India; Pandey V.D., School of Law, CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India
Rights
Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
Relation
ISBN: 978-100368359-9; 978-104116253-7; 978-104116256-8;
Format
online
Language
English
Type
Book chapter

Citation

Solanki, Shashank; Verma, Vijeta; Pandey, Vijaishree Dubey, “Regulating the Speed of Innovation: A Legal and Ethical Framework for 6G Deployment in Smart Societies,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed June 17, 2026, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/24465.

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