Screen LibraryVirtuality and capabilities in a world of ambient intelligence : new challenges to privacy and data protection /
This book is about power and freedoms in our technological world and has two main objectives. The first is to demonstrate that a theoretical exploration of the algorithmic governmentality hypothesis combined with the capability approach is useful for a better understanding of power and freedoms in A...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Switzerland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Law, governance and technology series,
volume 32 |
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| Summary: |
This book is about power and freedoms in our technological world and has two main objectives. The first is to demonstrate that a theoretical exploration of the algorithmic governmentality hypothesis combined with the capability approach is useful for a better understanding of power and freedoms in Ambient Intelligence, a world where information and communication technologies are invisible, interconnected, context aware, personalized, adaptive to humans and act autonomously. The second is to argue that these theories are useful for a better comprehension of privacy and data protection concept |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 199 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783319391977 (hardback) : 3319391976 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HF5548 |
| CLC: | TP309.2 |
| Call Number: | TP309.2/C837 |
| Contents: | Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- I Power and Freedoms -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 A World of Ambient Intelligence -- Chapter 3 The Power Through Technology -- Chapter 4 The Capability Approach -- II Rights -- Chapter 5 Privacy and Human Flourishing -- Chapter 6 Data Protection Law, Processes and Freedoms -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index. |