Contents: 1. Introduction: Diana’s onlife world 2. Smartness and Agency 3. The Onlife World 4. The Digital Unconscious: Back to Diana 5. Threats to Fundamental Rights in the Onlife World 6. The Other Side of Privacy: Agency and Privacy in Japan 7. The Ends of Law: Address and Redress 8. Intricate Entanglements of Law and Technology 9. The Fundamental Right of Data Protection 10. The End of Law or Legal Protection by Design References Index
Mireille Hildebrandt, Research Professor of Interfacing Law and Technology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Full Professor of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
‘Hildebrandt’s book is thought-provoking and a needed contribution
to discussions of the impacts of smart technologies.’
*Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech, Science and Public Policy*
‘In this challenging book, Mireille Hildebrandt again shows just
how far she thinks ahead of the curve. Exploring the implications
of the technological changes that are impelling humans towards an
“onlife” world - a world of data-driven agency, the Internet of
Things, and a radically different information and communication
infrastructure - Hildebrandt asks how law can maintain its mission
for justice, certainty and purposiveness. Having joined Hildebrandt
in this new world, readers will find it difficult to put the book
down.’
*Roger Brownsword, Kings College London, UK*
‘In sum, the depth and precision with which Hildebrandt provides
her insights is uncommon and striking, making this book (as law
professor Andrew Murray remarks in his rear-cover endorsement) one
of the few “must reads” within the field. Its content is
provocative and challenging, having an appeal that is sure to reach
far beyond the field of legal scholarship to accompanying
disciplines of computing, science and philosophy from which the
book draws. Likewise, it is clear that Hildebrandt benefits from
working between the disciplines of law and computer science, with
her experience in computer science departments evident in the way
in which she sensitively translates between, and explores, the
separate logics of law and technology.’
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‘Do conceptions of the Rule of Law reflect timeless truths, or are
they in fact contingent on a particular information and
communications infrastructure - one that we are fast leaving
behind? Hildebrandt has engineered a provocative encounter between
law and networked digital technologies that cuts to the heart of
the dilemma confronting legal institutions in a networked
world.’
*Julie E. Cohen, Georgetown University, US*
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