2023
DOI: 10.1017/beq.2022.30
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Dark Sides of Data Transparency: Organized Immaturity After GDPR?

Abstract: Organized immaturity refers to the capacity of widely institutionalized sociotechnical systems to challenge qualities of human enlightenment, autonomy, and self-determination. In the context of surveillance capitalism, where these qualities are continuously put at risk, data transparency is increasingly proposed as a means of restoring human maturity by allowing individuals insight and choice vis-à-vis corporate data processing. In this article, however, I draw on research on General Data Protection Regulation… Show more

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“…This transparency requirement is intended to empower individuals to make informed decisions about the use of their personal information. The accountability principle holds organizations responsible for their data processing activities (Lamoureux, 2020, Polanco, 2020, Schade, 2023. This involves implementing measures to ensure compliance, such as conducting privacy impact assessments, maintaining records of processing activities, and appointing a Data Protection Officer when necessary.…”
Section: Gdpr Principles and Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This transparency requirement is intended to empower individuals to make informed decisions about the use of their personal information. The accountability principle holds organizations responsible for their data processing activities (Lamoureux, 2020, Polanco, 2020, Schade, 2023. This involves implementing measures to ensure compliance, such as conducting privacy impact assessments, maintaining records of processing activities, and appointing a Data Protection Officer when necessary.…”
Section: Gdpr Principles and Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The article by Schade (2023) critically engages with the GDPR standard, a European Union regulation that aims to protect individual citizen-users' data and privacy rights. The author convincingly argues that, even though the standard is intended to foster transparency, to protect individual freedoms, and to enable individual users' capacities for using their own reasoning (i.e., maturity in a Kantian sense), the design principles and technological affordances of this particular standard lead, paradoxically, to intransparencies and an infantilization of users (e.g., when one has to click through myriad detailed GDPR settings before being able to access a web page).…”
Section: This Special Issue's Contributions To the Study Of Organized...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…And yet, despite these many critiques, and the coming of the GDPR (which, by insisting on individual consent may have exacerbated the problem; see Schade, 2023), citizens are left with the task of evaluating the risks associated with their consumption of datafied media with regard to how their data is collected, handled and used for. Expectations that datafication is something citizens need to worry about are however difficult to conciliate with everyday life.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%