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New Technologies and Privacy: Some Reflections on Subjects, Legal Categories, and Evolving Rights

New Technologies and Privacy: Some Reflections on Subjects, Legal Categories, and Evolving Rights

Arianna Maceratini
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781799884767|ISBN10: 1799884767|EISBN13: 9781799884774
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8476-7.ch013
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Maceratini, Arianna. "New Technologies and Privacy: Some Reflections on Subjects, Legal Categories, and Evolving Rights." Handbook of Research on Applying Emerging Technologies Across Multiple Disciplines, edited by Emiliano Marchisio, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 232-248. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8476-7.ch013

APA

Maceratini, A. (2022). New Technologies and Privacy: Some Reflections on Subjects, Legal Categories, and Evolving Rights. In E. Marchisio (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Applying Emerging Technologies Across Multiple Disciplines (pp. 232-248). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8476-7.ch013

Chicago

Maceratini, Arianna. "New Technologies and Privacy: Some Reflections on Subjects, Legal Categories, and Evolving Rights." In Handbook of Research on Applying Emerging Technologies Across Multiple Disciplines, edited by Emiliano Marchisio, 232-248. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8476-7.ch013

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Abstract

This work proposes a necessarily partial and evolving reflection on the dynamics by which information technologies have progressively changed the definition and interaction between privacy and knowledge, focusing on crucial points from a legal point of view. The relevance of the debate that has developed in recent years, on these issues, is evidenced by numerous initiatives and measures—both European and international—which offer answers to phenomena such as the development of the internet of things and, more generally, to progress in computer science and robotics. From this perspective, uncertainties are raised concerning the necessary respect for privacy and individual dignity to be balanced with the right to inform and to be informed, as evidence of an effectively shared knowledge. The critical point of the question is, in any case, the identification of a flexible balance between freedom and constraint, considering the violation of privacy not only as a mere limitation of individual potential, but as a factor capable of undermining the core of personal freedoms.

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