Beyond data : reclaiming human rights at the dawn of the metaverse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renieris, Elizabeth M.

Contributor:

Renieris, Elizabeth M., contribution by.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Beyond Data

Place of Publication:

Boston : MIT Press, 2023.

Summary:

Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people-and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed to protect people. In Beyond Data, Elizabeth Renieris argues that laws focused on data protection, data privacy, data security and data ownership have unintentionally failed to protect core human values, including privacy. And, as our collective obsession with data has grown, we have, to our peril, lost sight of what's truly at stake in relation to technological development-our dignity and autonomy as people. Far from being inevitable, our fixation on data has been codified through decades of flawed policy. Renieris provides a comprehensive history of how both laws and corporate policies enacted in the name of data privacy have been fundamentally incapable of protecting humans. Her research identifies the inherent deficiency of making data a rallying point in itself-data is not an objective truth, and what's more, its "entirely contextual and dynamic" status makes it an unstable foundation for organizing. In proposing a human rights-based framework that would center human dignity and autonomy rather than technological abstractions, Renieris delivers a clear-eyed and radically imaginative vision of the future. At once a thorough application of legal theory to technology and a rousing call to action, Beyond Data boldly reaffirms the value of human dignity and autonomy amid widespread disregard by private enterprise at the dawn of the metaverse.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Author's Note

Preface

Prologue

Introduction

What Is Data?

Historical Origins of Data

Data and the Law

Why We Must Go beyond Data

I Before Data

1 The Main Frame

The Philosophical and Legal Origins of Privacy

International Human Rights Law and Privacy as Protection from Interference by the State

Advances in Computing Challenge Traditional Notions of Privacy

Early Data Protection Laws Emerge in Response to Government Databases

An International Consensus Emerges around Fair Information Practice Principles

2 Update Failed

As International Consensus around Data Protection Emerges, so Does a New Digital Economy

Motivated by Economics, Europe Attempts to Upgrade Its Data Protection Laws

US Law and Policymakers Reinterpret the FIPPs to Favor Commerce

Europe Endeavors to Modernize Its Data Protection Laws

Dominant Commercial Interests Undermine Efforts to Update the Law

These Distortions Are Replicated the World Over

II Data, Data Everywhere

3 The Singular-ity

US Lawmakers Aim to Let People Control Their Data

The Market Seeks to Let People Own, Control, and Even Sell Personal Data

The Poverty of an Overly Individualistic Approach Focused on Data

More Collective Approaches Emerge but Still Suffer from an Obsession with Data

4 (Data) Privacy, the Handmaiden

Big Tech Goes on a Privacy PR Offensive

Big Tech Adopts PETs

The Problem with PETs

Distorting Privacy Helps Tech Consolidate Power

Distorting Privacy Also Threatens the Public Sphere

Privacy Risks Becoming a Handmaiden of Surveillance and Control

III Beyond Data

5 A Brave New World

Emotion Detection and Affect Recognition Technologies

Neurotechnologies and Neuromarketing

The Internet of Things and Bodies

"Metaversal" Technologies.

"Phygital" Identity and Machine-Readable Humans

"Smart" Cities versus "Public" Spaces

Data and the Cyberphysical World

The Limits of Existing Legal Frameworks in the Cyberphysical World

6 Against the Datafication of Life

The Exceptional Treatment of "Tech Companies"

Datafication and Its Enablers

The Inadequacies of Data Protection

Natural Limits on Datafication

Normative Limits on Datafication

Limits on Private Power

Defining the Limits of Permissible Datafication

7 Back to the Future: A Return to Human Rights

Human Rights and Technology Governance

Human Rights and the Metaverse

Emotion Recognition, Neurotechnologies, and Human Rights

Digital Identity and Human Rights

Recalibrating Human Rights for a Postdigital World

Human Rights as a Backstop against Commodification

Human Rights and Consensus

Acknowledgments

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Index.

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ISBN:

0-262-37341-6

OCLC:

1369652194