Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse by Renieris Elizabeth M.;

Author:Renieris, Elizabeth M.; [Renieris, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Privacy; data protection; data privacy; data governance; data ownership; digital governance; technology governance; internet governance; digital rights; data rights; technology ethics; AI ethics; data ethics; metaverse; digital economy; human rights; privacy engineering; Web3
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2023-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

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Against the Datafication of Life

Just as the emergence of computers and digital databases in the twentieth century threatened traditional notions of privacy and gave rise to the modern concept of data protection, new and advanced technologies that purport or attempt to observe and analyze our physiological, psychological, cognitive, and emotional states by penetrating deeper and deeper into our personal boundaries undermine existing data protection and privacy frameworks—particularly ones that are focused on imposing limits on the use, security, or management of personal data. Combined with the qualitatively different role that data plays in a postdigital, cyberphysical world, in which data comprises the built environment, and the increasing machine readability of humans through AI, machine learning, and other computational methods, we desperately need a new approach.

Our obsession with data, especially personal data, in the face of these emerging technologies, and the evolving relationship between humanity and digital technologies in a postdigital world, obscures what is really at stake in the new cyberphysical reality—namely the integrity of the self that enables individual autonomy, the formation of social and political relationships, and the foundations for democratic institutions and governance. It is high time that we look beyond data to discern the signal in the noise and reestablish this personal integrity. One potentially powerful approach is to actually begin before data enters the equation by ending the exceptional treatment of certain entities as “technology companies,” and challenging the narratives and processes that enable them to render human life and experience into digital data in the first place. That is the subject of this chapter.

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