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Ict En Rechtsstaat, Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2014

Ict En Rechtsstaat, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

Onderling gekoppelde computersystemen, vaak online verbonden, bepalen in toenemende mate de omgeving van staat en recht. Sterker nog, staat en recht worden voor een steeds groter deel bemiddeld, vertaald of zelfs gemaakt door volautomatische beslissystemen die intussen grotendeels aan het zicht zijn onttrokken. De profetische woorden van Weiser uit 1991 lijken steeds accurater. Weiser schreef over ‘calm computing’, en kondigde een nieuwe werkelijkheid aan waarin computersystemen de fysieke omgeving voortdurend afstemmen op en aanpassen aan hun gebruikers terwijl hun complexiteit verborgen blijft en het toetsenbord en zelfs het beeldscherm niet meer nodig zijn. Mogelijke wensen en voorkeuren worden in zo’n …


Location Data, Purpose Binding And Contextual Integrity: What's The Message, Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2014

Location Data, Purpose Binding And Contextual Integrity: What's The Message, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

This chapter investigates the issue of the proliferation of location data in the light of the ethical concept of contextual integrity and the legal concept of purpose binding. This involves an investigation of both concepts as side constraints on the free flow of information, entailing a balancing act between the civil liberties of individual citizens and the free flow of information. To tackle the issue the chapter starts from Floridi’s proposition that ‘communication means exchanging messages. So even the most elementary act of communication involves four elements: a sender, a receiver, a message, and a referent of the message’ and …


Slaves To Big Data. Or Are We?, Mireille Hildebrandt Oct 2013

Slaves To Big Data. Or Are We?, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

In this contribution the notion of Big Data is discussed in relation to the monetisation of personal data. The claim of some proponents as well as adversaries, that Big Data implies that ‘n = all’, meaning that we no longer need to rely on samples because we have all the data, is scrutinized and found both overly optimistic and unnecessarily pessimistic. A set of epistemological and ethical issues is presented, focusing on the implications of Big Data for our perception, cognition, fairness, privacy and due process. The article then looks into the idea of user centric personal data management, to …


The Rule Of Law In Cyberspace, Mireille Hildebrandt Jun 2013

The Rule Of Law In Cyberspace, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

This is a translation of my inaugural lecture at Radboud University Nijmegen. The Dutch version has been published as a booklet, the English version in available on my bepress site.


Balance Or Trade-Off? Online Security Technologies And Fundamental Rights, Mireille Hildebrandt May 2013

Balance Or Trade-Off? Online Security Technologies And Fundamental Rights, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

In this contribution I argue that the image of the balance is often used to defend the idea of a trade-off. To understand the drawbacks of this line of thought I will explore the relationship between online security technologies and fundamental rights, notably privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of speech and due process. After discriminating between three types of online security technologies I will trace the reconfiguration of the notion of privacy in the era of smart environments. This will lead to an inquiry into the metaphor of the scale, building on the triple test regarding the justification of the limitation of …


Introduction To The Value Of Personal Data, Mireille Hildebrandt, Kieron O'Hara, Michael Waidner Jan 2013

Introduction To The Value Of Personal Data, Mireille Hildebrandt, Kieron O'Hara, Michael Waidner

Mireille Hildebrandt

This Chapter provides an introduction to and overview of the 2013 Yearbook of the Digital Enlightenment Forum, on the subject of the value of personal data. It discusses why we should care about the current monetization of our personal data and raises the issue of whether and, if so, how user-centric personal data ecosystems help to rebalance power asymmetries between individual citizens and large Personal Data Processing Systems.


Profile Transparency By Design? Re-Enabling Double Contingency, Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2013

Profile Transparency By Design? Re-Enabling Double Contingency, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

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Profiles And Correlatable Humans, Mireille Hildebrandt Jan 2008

Profiles And Correlatable Humans, Mireille Hildebrandt

Mireille Hildebrandt

In this chapter I discuss some of the crucial implications of profiling practices for identity, legal subjectivity, democracy and rule of law. To this end I will attempt to answer (or at least raise) the question if and how the information and/or knowledge generated by these technologies can be made justiciable. First I will explain what is meant by the term profiling practices (section 2). Second I will discuss the purposes and some of the effects of the type of knowledge these practices produce (section 3). Third I will indicate in what ways profiling technologies produce a new type of …