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Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law: Novel Entanglements of Law and Technology by Mireille Hildebrandt (Paperback, 2016)

This timely book tells the story of the smart techlogies 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 spending capacity. Mireille Hildebrandt claims that we are in transit between an information society and a data-driven society, which has far reaching consequences for the world we depend on. She highlights how the pervasive employment of machine-learning techlogies that inform so-called 'data-driven agency' threaten privacy, identity, automy, n-discrimination, due process and the presumption of incence. The author argues how smart techlogies undermine, reconfigure and overrule the ends of the law in a constitutional democracy, jeopardizing law as an instrument of justice, legal certainty and the public good. Nevertheless, the book calls on lawyers, computer scientists and civil society t to reject smart techlogies, explaining how further engaging these techlogies may help to reinvent the effective protection of the Rule of Law. Academics and researchers interested in the philosophy of law and techlogy will find this book both discerning and relevant. Practitioners and policy makers in the areas of law, computer science and engineering will benefit from the insight into smart techlogies and their impact today.

Place of Publication
Cheltenham
Author Biography
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
Date of Publication
31/03/2016
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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