Human Rights Digital Society And The Law

Author : Mart Susi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351025362

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Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law by Mart Susi Pdf

The Internet has created a formidable challenge for human rights law and practice worldwide. International scholarly and policy-oriented communities have so far established a consensus regarding only one main aspect – human rights in the internet are the same as offline. There are emerging and ongoing debates regarding not only the standards and methods to be used for achieving the "sameness" of rights online, but also whether "classical" human rights as we know them are contested by the online environment. The internet itself, in view of its cross-border nature and its ability to affect various areas of law, requires adopting an internationally oriented approach and a perspective strongly focused on social sciences. In particular, the rise of the internet, enhanced also by the influence of new technologies such as algorithms and intelligent artificial systems, has influenced individuals’ civil, political and social rights not only in the digital world, but also in the atomic realm. As the coming of the internet calls into question well-established legal categories, a broader perspective than the domestic one is necessary to investigate this phenomenon. This book explores the main fundamental issues and practical dimensions related to the safeguarding of human rights in the internet, which are at the focus of current academic debates. It provides a comprehensive analysis with a forward-looking perspective of bringing order into the somewhat chaotic online dimension of human rights. It addresses the matter of private digital censorship, the apparent inefficiency of existing judicial systems to react to human rights violations online, the uncertainty of liability for online human rights violations, whether the concern with personal data protection overshadows multiple other human rights issues online and will be of value to those interested in human rights law and legal regulation of the internet.

Author : Mathias Klang,Andrew Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135310189

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Human Rights in the Digital Age by Mathias Klang,Andrew Murray Pdf

The digital age began in 1939 with the construction of the first digital computer. In the sixty-five years that have followed, the influence of digitisation on our everyday lives has grown steadily and today digital technology has a greater influence on our lives than at any time since its development. This book examines the role played by digital technology in both the exercise and suppression of human rights. The global digital environment has allowed us to reinterpret the concept of universal human rights. Discourse on human rights need no longer be limited by national or cultural boundaries and individuals have the ability to create new forms in which to exercise their rights or even to bypass national limitations to rights. The defence of such rights is meanwhile under constant assault by the newfound ability of states to both suppress and control individual rights through the application of these same digital technologies. This book gathers together an international group of experts working within this rapidly developing area of law and technology and focuses their attantion on the specific interaction between human rights and digital technology. This is the first work to explore the challenges brought about by digital technology to fundamental freedoms such as privacy, freedom of expression, access, assembly and dignity. It is essential reading for anyone who fears digital technology will lead to the 'Big Brother' state.

Author : Susan Perry,Claudia Roda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137588050

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Human Rights and Digital Technology by Susan Perry,Claudia Roda Pdf

Analysing the convergence of law and regulation with rapidly evolving communications technologies, this interdisciplinary work navigates the intricate balancing act between human rights protection and technological innovation in a digital age, and illuminates the comprehensive potential of human rights to frame our intelligent use of technology. The authors address such pressing questions as how to protect user privacy online, whether digital pollution is a health hazard, who should have control and be responsible for data technologies and how to maintain human autonomy in a world of interconnected objects. By considering specific cases, this book provides an in-depth exploration of the many regulatory and technological choices citizens, states, civil society organizations and the private sector should consider to ensure that digital technology more fully serves human needs.

Author : Ben Wagner,Matthias C. Kettemann,Kilian Vieth
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785367724

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Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology by Ben Wagner,Matthias C. Kettemann,Kilian Vieth Pdf

In a digitally connected world, the question of how to respect, protect and implement human rights has become unavoidable. This contemporary Research Handbook offers new insights into well-established debates by framing them in terms of human rights. It examines the issues posed by the management of key Internet resources, the governance of its architecture, the role of different stakeholders, the legitimacy of rule making and rule-enforcement, and the exercise of international public authority over users. Highly interdisciplinary, its contributions draw on law, political science, international relations and even computer science and science and technology studies.

Author : Jonathan Andrew,Frédéric Bernard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509938841

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Human Rights Responsibilities in the Digital Age by Jonathan Andrew,Frédéric Bernard Pdf

This book examines the tangled responsibilities of states, companies, and individuals surrounding human rights in the digital age. Digital technologies have a huge impact – for better and worse – on human lives; while they can clearly enhance some human rights, they also facilitate a wide range of violations. States are expected to implement efficient measures against powerful private companies, but, at the same time, they are drawn to technologies that extend their own control over citizens. Tech companies are increasingly asked to prevent violations committed online by their users, yet many of their business models depend on the accumulation and exploitation of users' personal data. While civil society has a crucial part to play in upholding human rights, it is also the case that individuals harm other individuals online. All three stakeholders need to ensure that technology does not provoke the disintegration of human rights. Bringing together experts from a range of disciplines, including law, international relations, and journalism, this book provides a detailed analysis of the impact of digital technologies on human rights, which will be of interest to academics, research students and professionals concerned by this issue.

Author : Fernando Esteban de la Rosa
Publisher : ARANZADI / CIVITAS
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788413913506

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Justice, trade, security, and individual freedoms in the digital society by Fernando Esteban de la Rosa Pdf

The main target audience for this book will be academics, postgraduate students, legal practitioners, and policy-makers. The book is also aimed at journalist, economists, political scientists, and anyone interested in exploring and finding new tools to regulate the digital society, approaching the legal challenges fostered by new technology, and wishing to understand how the development of the digital society has to be legally driven to protect fundamental rights. The topic is interesting for varied audiences from all over the world. The book will also be relevant for public authorities and legislative powers at the international, national, and regional levels to assist in the drafting of laws. The subject matter is particularly attractive for providing objective analysis in the current political debate related to the development of the digital society. The proposed book deals with highly topical legal issues, since the development of the new technologies requires new legal analysis. The book has been drafted in English by a multinational group of selected authors. This will facilitate the international projection of its publication all over the world. Addressing the legal analysis from different sectoral angles (artificial intelligence, digital justice, electronic contracts, digital trade, gender, security, and public law) increases the potential interest of the very diverse actors in this field.

Author : Molly K. Land,Jay D. Aronson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107179639

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New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice by Molly K. Land,Jay D. Aronson Pdf

Provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Anne Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351046770

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Human Rights and the Digital Divide by Anne Peacock Pdf

The Internet’s importance for freedom of expression and other rights comes in part from the ability it bestows on users to create and share information, rather than just receive it. Within the context of existing freedom of expression guarantees, this book critically evaluates the goal of bridging the 'digital divide' – the gap between those who have access to the Internet and those who do not. Central to this analysis is the examination of two questions: first, is there a right to access the Internet, and if so, what does that right look like and how far does it extend? Second, if there is a right to access the Internet, is there a legal obligation on States to overcome the digital divide? Through examination of this debate’s history, analysis of case law in the European Court of Human Rights and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and a case study of one digital inclusion programme in Jalisco, Mexico, this book concludes that there is indeed currently a legal right to Internet access, but one that it is very limited in scope. The 2012 Joint Declaration on Freedom of Expression and the Internet is aspirational in nature, rather than a representative summary of current protections afforded by the international human rights legal framework. This book establishes a critical foundation from which some of these aspirations could be advanced in the future. The digital divide is not just a human rights challenge nor will it be overcome through human rights law alone. Nevertheless, human rights law could and should do more than it has thus far.

Author : Rikke Frank Jorgensen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262039055

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Human Rights in the Age of Platforms by Rikke Frank Jorgensen Pdf

Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society. Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their privacy. What are the human rights implications of an online domain managed by privately owned platforms? According to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, adopted by the UN Human Right Council in 2011, businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights and to carry out human rights due diligence. But this goal is dependent on the willingness of states to encode such norms into business regulations and of companies to comply. In this volume, contributors from across law and internet and media studies examine the state of human rights in today's platform society. The contributors consider the “datafication” of society, including the economic model of data extraction and the conceptualization of privacy. They examine online advertising, content moderation, corporate storytelling around human rights, and other platform practices. Finally, they discuss the relationship between human rights law and private actors, addressing such issues as private companies' human rights responsibilities and content regulation. Contributors Anja Bechmann, Fernando Bermejo, Agnès Callamard, Mikkel Flyverbom, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Molly K. Land, Tarlach McGonagle, Jens-Erik Mai, Joris van Hoboken, Glen Whelan, Jillian C. York, Shoshana Zuboff, Ethan Zuckerman Open access edition published with generous support from Knowledge Unlatched and the Danish Council for Independent Research.

Author : Rebekah Dowd
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030829698

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The Birth of Digital Human Rights by Rebekah Dowd Pdf

This book considers contested responsibilities between the public and private sectors over the use of online data, detailing exactly how digital human rights evolved in specific European states and gradually became a part of the European Union framework of legal protections. The author uniquely examines why and how European lawmakers linked digital data protection to fundamental human rights, something heretofore not explained in other works on general data governance and data privacy. In particular, this work examines the utilization of national and European Union institutional arrangements as a location for activism by legal and academic consultants and by first-mover states who legislated digital human rights beginning in the 1970s. By tracing the way that EU Member States and non-state actors utilized the structure of EU bodies to create the new norm of digital human rights, readers will learn about the process of expanding the scope of human rights protections within multiple dimensions of European political space. The project will be informative to scholar, student, and layperson, as it examines a new and evolving area of technology governance – the human rights of digital data use by the public and private sectors.

Author : Riccardo Genghini
Publisher : CEDAM
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788813371876

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Digital new deal: the quest for a natural law in a digital society by Riccardo Genghini Pdf

The quest for a natural law that can be applied to a digital society may sound like an oxymoron, but it is a necessary quest if we hope to institute a “Digital New Deal”: Hence the title of this book. Today once again, mass media is disrupting society, much as radio and cinema were used to buttress totalitarianism in the 1920s … or even worse, in the 15th century, when the printing of the Bible unleashed 100 years of war, plague and instability. Things get messy when people disagree on facts rather than ideas. Natural law springs from the features of the physical world, which contains boundaries (an inside and an outside), limited resources, living individuals, objects, living animals, living plants, climate, the four elements, etc. None of this is a given in the digital world, which looks today like feudalism in a box, with (fire)walled communities run by unelected autocrats (system administrators) ruling over countless subjects, whose identities are tied to the domain of the (fire)walled community and whose rights can only be enforced by the autocratic system administrator. This dystopic reality is neither necessary nor inevitable. It is the consequence of bad technical design and inappropriate business models, which are destroying the spirit of free pluralism that enabled them to thrive in the first place. Information technology has its own ontology and “natural” rules, and we must understand them and learn to regard them as being among the founding legal principles of our free, open, pluralistic societies. Of the 12 founding digital principles addressed here, the most important may well be that we must each own and control our digital identities. In the world created by information technology, everyone and everything should possess a UID, a unique identifier. Without one, we are just helpless particles lost in a dark and hostile universe.

Author : Akrivopoulou, Christina M.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466608924

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Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies by Akrivopoulou, Christina M. Pdf

Globalization, along with its digital and information communication technology counterparts, including the Internet and cyberspace, may signify a whole new era for human rights, characterized by new tensions, challenges, and risks for human rights, as well as new opportunities. Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies explores the emergence and evolution of ‘digital’ rights that challenge and transform more traditional legal, political, and historical understandings of human rights. Academic and legal scholars will explore individual, national, and international democratic dilemmas--sparked by economic and environmental crises, media culture, data collection, privatization, surveillance, and security--that alter the way individuals and societies think about, regulate, and protect rights when faced with new challenges and threats. The book not only uncovers emerging changes in discussions of human rights, it proposes legal remedies and public policies to mitigate the challenges posed by new technologies and globalization.

Author : Joy Liddicoat
Publisher : Intersentia
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1839700599

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Human Rights and the Internet by Joy Liddicoat Pdf

The past decade has witnessed unprecedented use of the Internet for both advancing and suppressing human rights, giving rise to complex new issues that can both inspire and overwhelm. With ever-growing concerns about the (non-)regulation of our digital environment, it is surprising that both the theoretical and practical application of human rights to the Internet and our online lives remain unclear.00This book is a short and accessible introduction to the concepts of human rights, the Internet and the emergence of an era of human rights online as a new legal challenge. It will be of interest to a broad range of readers: policy makers and informed citizens, lawyers working with human rights defenders, and legal and human rights academics examining the emergence of this legal field.

Author : Fernando Esteban de la Rosa,Juana María Gil Ruiz,Luis Miguel Hinojosa Martínez,Antonio Orti Vallejo,Sixto Sánchez Lorenzo,Javier Vals Prieto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8413913519

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Justice, Trade, Security, and Individual Freedoms in the Digital Society by Fernando Esteban de la Rosa,Juana María Gil Ruiz,Luis Miguel Hinojosa Martínez,Antonio Orti Vallejo,Sixto Sánchez Lorenzo,Javier Vals Prieto Pdf

Author : Mart Susi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009407731

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The Non-Coherence Theory of Digital Human Rights by Mart Susi Pdf

Susi offers a novel non-coherence theory of digital human rights. It explains the change in meaning and scope of human rights rules, principles, ideas and concepts, and the interrelationships and related actors, when moving from the physical domain into the online domain.