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I shall discuss the relevance of human rights for the development information society. First I shall shortly introduce the opportunities and dangers pertaining to the information society, also referring to some famous science fiction works. I shall argue that human rights may provide some guidance for addressing such opportunities and dangers. I shall then consider how different human rights are involved in the social deployment of information technologies, and the connections between such rights. Finally, I shall provide some considerations on what approach to humans right may be more useful for promoting human values in the information society.
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Sartor, G. (2012). Human Rights in the Information Society: Utopias, Dystopias and Human Values. In: Corradetti, C. (eds) Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2376-4_15
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