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Virtuality and Capabilities in a World of Ambient Intelligence

New Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Luiz Costa

    1. Faculté de Droit (Visiting Researcher), University of Namur, CRIDS, Namur, Belgium

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  • Focuses on human rights issues related to Ambient Intelligence
  • Investigates the rationality of power underlying technology
  • Explores connections between algorithmic governmentality, capability approach, privacy and data protection

Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 32)

Part of the book sub series: Issues in Privacy and Data Protection (ISDP)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Power and Freedoms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Luiz Costa
      Pages 3-13

    3. A World of Ambient Intelligence

      • Luiz Costa
      Pages 15-41

    4. The Power Through Technology

      • Luiz Costa
      Pages 43-65

    5. The Capability Approach

      • Luiz Costa
      Pages 67-92

  3. Rights

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Privacy and Human Flourishing

      • Luiz Costa
      Pages 95-135

    3. Data Protection Law, Processes and Freedoms

      • Luiz Costa
      Pages 137-170

    4. Conclusion

      • Luiz Costa
      Pages 171-175

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 177-199
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About this book

This book is about power and freedoms in our technological world and has two main objectives. The first is to demonstrate that a theoretical exploration of the algorithmic governmentality hypothesis combined with the capability approach is useful for a better understanding of power and freedoms in Ambient Intelligence, a world where information and communication technologies are invisible, interconnected, context aware, personalized, adaptive to humans and act autonomously. The second is to argue that these theories are useful for a better comprehension of privacy and data protection concepts and the evolution of their regulation. Having these objectives in mind, the book outlines a number of theses based on two threads: first, the elimination of the social effects of uncertainty and the risks to freedoms and, second, the vindication of rights. Inspired by and building on the outcomes of different philosophical and legal approaches, this book embodies an effort to better understand thechallenges posed by Ambient Intelligence technologies, opening paths for more effective realization of rights and rooting legal norms in the preservation of the potentiality of human capabilities.

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“Virtuality and Capabilities in a World of Ambient Intelligence by Luiz Costa represents a relevant effort to address this phenomenon from the perspective of ubiquitous intelligent devices and their impact on the law, specifically data protection and privacy. … Virtuality and Capabilities in a World of Ambient Intelligence is a title that combines legal–philosophical approaches with up-to-date technological concepts to provide a better understanding of the legal challenges presented by this approach.” (Jesus Manuel Niebla Zatarain, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Vol. 25 (4), 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculté de Droit (Visiting Researcher), University of Namur, CRIDS, Namur, Belgium

    Luiz Costa

About the author

Luiz Costa is a researcher specialized in information technology law. He holds a masters degree from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and a ph.d. from the University of Namur. His main research interests are related to human rights and emerging technologies, particularly from a philosophical and legal point of view. Since 2016 he has been a fellow at the Research Centre in Information, Law and Society (crids). He also has 14 years’ experience as a federal prosecutor in Brazil.

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