Overview
- Focuses on human rights issues related to Ambient Intelligence
- Investigates the rationality of power underlying technology
- Explores connections between algorithmic governmentality, capability approach, privacy and data protection
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 32)
Part of the book sub series: Issues in Privacy and Data Protection (ISDP)
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Keywords
- World of Ambient Intelligence
- Privacy and Data Protection
- Virtuality and Capabilities
- Power and Freedoms
- Enabling Technologies
- Power Through technology
- Freedom and Means to Freedom
- Well-Being and Agency
- Capabilities and Human Rights
- Theories of Technology
- Impact of Technology Design on Capabilities
- Capabilities and Risk
- Human Development
- Human Enhancement
- Privacy, A Fundamental Human Right
- Privacy and Well-Being
- Virtuality, Privacy and Capabilities
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Power and Freedoms
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Rights
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Luiz Costa is a researcher specialized in information technology law. He holds a masters degree from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and a ph.d. from the University of Namur. His main research interests are related to human rights and emerging technologies, particularly from a philosophical and legal point of view. Since 2016 he has been a fellow at the Research Centre in Information, Law and Society (crids). He also has 14 years’ experience as a federal prosecutor in Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virtuality and Capabilities in a World of Ambient Intelligence
Book Subtitle: New Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection
Authors: Luiz Costa
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39198-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39197-7Published: 07 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81841-2Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39198-4Published: 31 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 199
Topics: IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Technology, European Law
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