Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law: Novel Entanglements of Law and Technology

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Edward Elgar Publishing, Feb 27, 2015 - Law - 304 pages

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

 

Contents

Dianas onlife world
1
PART I Datadriven agency
19
2 Smartness and agency
21
3 The onlife world
41
PART II Threats of border control
63
back to Diana
65
5 Threats to fundamental rights in the onlife world
77
agency and privacy in Japan
104
address and redress
133
8 Intricate entanglements of law and technology
159
9 The fundamental right of data protection
186
10 The end of law or Legal Protection by Design
214
Notes
227
References
240
Abbreviations and glossary
260
Index
265

PART III The ends of law
131

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About the author (2015)

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

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