This timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoki... more This timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoking their most salient functionality: the prediction and preemption of our day-to-day activities, preferences, health and credit risks, criminal intent and spending capacity. Mireille Hildebrandt claims that we are in transit between an information society and a data-driven society, which has far reaching consequences for the world we depend on. She highlights how the pervasive employment of machine-learning technologies that inform so-called ‘data-driven agency’ threaten privacy, identity, autonomy, non-discrimination, due process and the presumption of innocence. The author argues how smart technologies undermine, reconfigure and overrule the ends of the law in a constitutional democracy, jeopardizing law as an instrument of justice, legal certainty and the public good. Finally, the book calls on lawyers, computer scientists and civil society not to reject smart technologies, explaining how further engaging these technologies may help to reinvent the effective protection of the rule of law.
Abstract Autonomic computing and ambient intelligence, reconfiguring human perceptions and experi... more Abstract Autonomic computing and ambient intelligence, reconfiguring human perceptions and experience, challenge traditional philosophical conceptions of both self-constitution and agency of the human subject in relation to its human and nonhuman environment, with crucial consequences for the theory and practice of constitutional self-government. Perturbing and/or emancipatory as they may appear to philosophers and lawyers, these issues provide an unprecedented occasion for interdisciplinary exchanges and cross- ...
What is at stake if justice authorities decide to hack a computer system that is physically locat... more What is at stake if justice authorities decide to hack a computer system that is physically located on a server outside the territory of the state they represent–for instance, because a malicious attack was operated from foreign territory, causing serious harm to a variety of computing systems? The article explores potential answers to this question, starting with a discussion of the makings of territorial jurisdiction. My starting point is an inquiry into the territorial spatiality of modern jurisdiction that traces the history of the idea of mutually ...
Abstract This report was commissioned by the Smart Energy Collective (SEC), a consortium of 26 co... more Abstract This report was commissioned by the Smart Energy Collective (SEC), a consortium of 26 companies from different parts of the industry: network distributors, energy suppliers, ICT companies etc. The objective of the report is to provide a reflection on the design implications of data protection issues for the construction of Smart Grids. Special attention is given to the profiling of energy consumers, based on energy usage data.
This timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoki... more This timely book tells the story of the smart technologies that reconstruct our world, by provoking their most salient functionality: the prediction and preemption of our day-to-day activities, preferences, health and credit risks, criminal intent and spending capacity. Mireille Hildebrandt claims that we are in transit between an information society and a data-driven society, which has far reaching consequences for the world we depend on. She highlights how the pervasive employment of machine-learning technologies that inform so-called ‘data-driven agency’ threaten privacy, identity, autonomy, non-discrimination, due process and the presumption of innocence. The author argues how smart technologies undermine, reconfigure and overrule the ends of the law in a constitutional democracy, jeopardizing law as an instrument of justice, legal certainty and the public good. Finally, the book calls on lawyers, computer scientists and civil society not to reject smart technologies, explaining how further engaging these technologies may help to reinvent the effective protection of the rule of law.
Abstract Autonomic computing and ambient intelligence, reconfiguring human perceptions and experi... more Abstract Autonomic computing and ambient intelligence, reconfiguring human perceptions and experience, challenge traditional philosophical conceptions of both self-constitution and agency of the human subject in relation to its human and nonhuman environment, with crucial consequences for the theory and practice of constitutional self-government. Perturbing and/or emancipatory as they may appear to philosophers and lawyers, these issues provide an unprecedented occasion for interdisciplinary exchanges and cross- ...
What is at stake if justice authorities decide to hack a computer system that is physically locat... more What is at stake if justice authorities decide to hack a computer system that is physically located on a server outside the territory of the state they represent–for instance, because a malicious attack was operated from foreign territory, causing serious harm to a variety of computing systems? The article explores potential answers to this question, starting with a discussion of the makings of territorial jurisdiction. My starting point is an inquiry into the territorial spatiality of modern jurisdiction that traces the history of the idea of mutually ...
Abstract This report was commissioned by the Smart Energy Collective (SEC), a consortium of 26 co... more Abstract This report was commissioned by the Smart Energy Collective (SEC), a consortium of 26 companies from different parts of the industry: network distributors, energy suppliers, ICT companies etc. The objective of the report is to provide a reflection on the design implications of data protection issues for the construction of Smart Grids. Special attention is given to the profiling of energy consumers, based on energy usage data.
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