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Human Rights for the Data Society by André Dao

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Human Rights for the Data Society by André Dao

In the 2010s, the United Nations embarked on a series of projects to embrace and respond to digital data technologies as part of its human rights agenda. Human Rights for the Data Society argues that these efforts produced a world in which the biggest technology corporations and their data technologies are widely accepted as indispensable to the international human rights project: the data society. The UN did this through a series of technical projects that produce 'datafied' forms of human rights, whereby core concepts and practices of rights are understood by reference to or performed through digital data technologies, and where the human of human rights recedes into the data. Thus, when human rights practitioners – at the UN and beyond – use datafied forms of human rights, they play a significant role in making the data society possible. By the same token, they also play a significant role in foreclosing alternative possibilities – of worlds in which human rights and digital data technologies might be imagined differently.
André Dao is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law at Melbourne Law School. His coauthored article 'Translating Dark Into Bright: Diary of a Post-critical Year' was awarded the Early Career Researcher Article Prize by the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia.
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ISBN 13 9781009866491
ISBN 10 1009866494
Title Human Rights for the Data Society
Author André Dao
Series Cambridge Studies In International And Comparative Law
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2026-12-31
Number of pages 260
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