Human Rights for the Digital Age

Mathiesen, Kay

doi:10.1080/08900523.2014.863124

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“…However, how can job quality (or worker power) be ensured for all platform workers while also creating further democratic socioeconomic platformised alternatives to revert algorithmic and data politics (data oligopolies) extractivist, business-as-usual hegemonic paradigm [55]? At this stage, consequently, we may also ask whether it is possible to alter existing data governance extractivist models to incentivise the emergence of platform co-operatives [56,57] and data co-operatives [58,59], thereby protecting pandemic citizens' labour and digital rights [60].…”

Section: Data Co-operatives: Socioeconomic Digital Right Claim Through P2p Data Sharing and Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Co-Operatives through Data Sovereignty

Calzada

2021

Smart Cities

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Against the widespread assumption that data are the oil of the 21st century, this article offers an alternative conceptual framework, interpretation, and pathway around data and smart city nexus to subvert surveillance capitalism in light of emerging and further promising practical cases. This article illustrates an open debate in data governance and the data justice field related to current trends and challenges in smart cities, resulting in a new approach advocated for and recently coined by the UN-Habitat programme ‘People-Centred Smart Cities’. Particularly, this feature article sheds light on two intertwined notions that articulate the technopolitical dimension of the ‘People-Centred Smart Cities’ approach: data co-operatives and data sovereignty. Data co-operatives are emerging as a way to share and own data through peer-to-peer (p2p) repositories and data sovereignty is being claimed as a digital right for communities/citizens. Consequently, this feature article aims to open up new research avenues around ‘People-Centred Smart Cities’ approach: First, it elucidates how data co-operatives through data sovereignty could be articulated as long as co-developed with communities connected to the long history and analysis of the various forms of co-operatives (technopolitical dimension). Second, it prospectively anticipates the city–regional dimension encompassing data colonialism and data devolution.

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Section: Data Co-operatives: Socioeconomic Digital Right Claim Through P2p Data Sharing and Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Co-Operatives through Data Sovereignty

Calzada

2021

Smart Cities

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“…For our ubiquitously connected internet lives to achieve an inner regulatory structure in favor of fundamental freedoms and the protection of the individual and the community, beyond state control, human rights need to become the ethical regulatory mechanism to which the practices of media and ICT developers should adhere. “A focus on general principles such as freedom of expression can make us blind to the concrete ways that our institutions may be restricting expression every day” (Mathiesen, 2014, p. 6). The “translation” needs to be on the basis of a general principle, such as the right to information, identifying precisely what it means in each context including enablers and limitations to its realization.…”

Section: Human Rights In Media and Information And Communication Technology Corporationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The aspect of ICTs as liberating tools has been largely considered by literature, but the aspect of power and control behind human rights policies linking technologies and freedom of information has been less discussed, especially in the case of internet freedom as a matter of human rights (Carr, 2013). At the same time, skepticism over ICTs as a derived human right (Mathiesen, 2014) must be better understood so that human rights do not become a convenient tool to avoid social change. Besides critical stances on why we should take human rights more seriously than technologies (as the latter change over time) (Cerf, 2012), it is necessary to understand that new technologies require also different thinking, without abandoning commitment to established values, such as privacy, and by putting in practice traditional primary rights such as freedom of expression (Joyce, 2015).…”

Section: Human Rights In Media and Information And Communication Technology Corporationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social control and the institutionalization of human rights as an ethical framework for media and ICT corporations

Sarikakis

Korbiel

Mantovaneli

2018

JICES

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Purpose This paper is concerned with the place of human rights in the process of technological development but specifically as this process is situated within the corporate-technological complex of modern digital communications and their derivatives. This paper aims to argue that expecting and institutionalizing the incorporation of human rights in the process of technological innovation and production, particularly in the context of global economic actors, constitutes a necessary act if we want to navigate the immediate future of artificial intelligence and ubiquitous connectivity in ways that protect democracy and human dignity. Design/methodology/approach The discussion presents the case for defending human rights through a social control perspective, which assumes the conscious quest for impacting change and cartographing a path of actions and intentions. The authors approach the problem from James Ralph Beniger’s theory of the Control Revolution (1986) to explain the emergence of a new social order and to outline the main challenges brought particularly by media and information and communication technology (ICT) corporations as global actors of power. Findings Ethics initiatives, considering human rights as an ethical framework for media and ICT businesses, can be based on social control perspectives to regard the more complex variables interacting in the formation of effective policy making. It is the right to participate in the construction of knowledge in society and, informed by this knowledge, help manage or control democratic issues, including influencing on the regulation of technology and other cultural formats of control (Altheide, 1995). Knowing social control tools enable citizens to lead their destinies, plan their freedom and the change what they wish in the societies they live in. Originality/value Social control is often understood as a term taken for granted and many times faced as representing malignant and anti-democratic forms. Here, the authors try to build a theoretical ground where both sides – the benign and the malignant – can be taken in consideration to bring awareness to the need to discuss social control as a democratic endeavor, and consider human rights as part of this and not something apart and idealized. The practice of human rights is directly associated with social control forms and is from within these practices individuals must understand its role on social control and act.

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“…The evolution of development from primitive computer networks and computer devices to modern high-tech networks and devices took place in a short time. Information technology is one of the main characteristics of modern society (MATHIESEN, 2014). In this regard, the issues of modernization of law enforcement activities, including through the development and implementation of innovative digital technologies, are of particular relevance today (THORGAARD BITTEN SORENSEN, 2018).…”

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International trends in the interaction between law enforcement bodies in the digital space

Kovtun

Винокуров

Kapustina

et al. 2021

Laplage

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The authors substantiate the feasibility of introducing digital technologies into modern law enforcement. The position on the need for normative consolidation of the procedure for the creation and use of international databases of law enforcement agencies based on blockchain technology, and the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies is substantiated. The need for a phased, but offensive implementation of digital technologies in law enforcement is determined. The main task for successful international integration is the complete digitalization of law enforcement within each country and on the basis of uniform standards that will allow all individual law enforcement agencies to be combined into a single international law enforcement agency.

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Human Rights for the Digital Age

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

Data Co-Operatives through Data Sovereignty

Data Co-Operatives through Data Sovereignty

Social control and the institutionalization of human rights as an ethical framework for media and ICT corporations

International trends in the interaction between law enforcement bodies in the digital space

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