One of the great things (it is also occasionally a poor thing) about English common law is that the judges can choose to enforce whichever laws/acts that they want when they are contradictory, based on how they see the case. After the fact, an appeal may overturn a judges ruling. In fact what the judges rule create precedents for other judges to use as they see fit.
Bottom line is that the justice system will sort it out eventually, but not at the same speed that the technologies are changing.
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One of the great things (it is also occasionally a poor thing) about English common law is that the judges can choose to enforce whichever laws/acts that they want when they are contradictory, based on how they see the case. After the fact, an appeal may overturn a judges ruling. In fact what the judges rule create precedents for other judges to use as they see fit.
Bottom line is that the justice system will sort it out eventually, but not at the same speed that the technologies are changing.