Data Rights in Transition

Data Rights in Transition maps the development of data rights that formed and reformed in response to the socio-technical transformations of the postwar twentieth century. The authors situate these rights, with their early pragmatic emphasis on fair information processing, as different from and less symbolically powerful than utopian human rights of older centuries. They argue that, if an essential role of human rights is 'to capture the world's imagination', the next generation of data rights needs to come closer to realising that vision - even while maintaining their pragmatic focus on effectiveness. After a brief introduction, the sections that follow focus on socio-technical transformations, emergence of the right to data protection, and new and emerging rights such as the right to be forgotten and the right not to be subject to automated decision-making, along with new mechanisms of governance and enforcement.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Megan Richardson, Precursors and Threads; 2. Rachelle Bosua, Rise of the Computer and Catalysts for Change; 3. Jing Qian and Megan Richardson, From Pragmatism to Activism; 4. Damian Clifford, Making and Remaking Data Protection; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Rachelle Bosua, Damian Clifford, Jing Qian, Megan Richardson, Richardson Megan
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.08.2025
• EAN: 9781009613514
• ISBN: 978-1-009-61351-4
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Elements in Data Rights and Wrongs
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, Impact of science & technology on society, Privacy & data protection, Impact of science and technology on society, Privacy and data protection, Ethical & social aspects of IT, IT & Communications law, Digital, IT and Communications law