Social Influence and the Normalization of Surveillance Capitalism: Legislation for the Next Generation

Mertzani, Asimina; Pitt, Jeremy

doi:10.1109/mts.2022.3173321

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“…However, it is notable that Taylor uses the term 'social imaginary' to refer to more, though not less, than what I describe here. This is one reason that SC is predictably more dangerous for children than for adults (Mertzani and Pitt 2022). He draws here on both Frederick Hayek and Adam Smith.…”

Section: Law Interpretation and Socio-cultural Custommentioning

confidence: 99%

Thomas Aquinas, Ronald Dworkin, and the Fourth Revolution: The Foundations of Law in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Smith

2023

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Since the publication of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the strategies of Surveillance Capitalists and appropriate responses to them have become common points of discussion across several fields. However, there is relatively little literature addressing challenges that Surveillance Capitalism raises for the foundations of law. This article outlines Surveillance Capitalism and then compares the views of Thomas Aquinas and Ronald Dworkin in four areas: truth and reality, reality and law, interpretation and social custom, and virtue and law; finally, it closes by asking whether the law alone can provide a sufficient response to Surveillance Capitalism. The overarching argument of the article is that, while Aquinas’s view of the foundations of law accounts for and responds to the challenges of Surveillance Capitalism more effectively than Dworkin’s, law alone cannot provide a sufficient response to this emerging phenomenon.

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Section: Law Interpretation and Socio-cultural Custommentioning

confidence: 99%

Thomas Aquinas, Ronald Dworkin, and the Fourth Revolution: The Foundations of Law in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Smith

2023

Laws

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“…however, iT is one endeavor to detect and diagnose a problem, it is yet another to deal with it, especially at the scale. While the global advocacy of children's rights groups remains essential, and articles maintaining pressure for legislation are also important (e.g., [35] and [36]), it is equally vital to empower the younger generation with their own voice, for example by children's assemblies (despite, as noted above, that voice potentially being diminished by the deskilling of rhetorical competence through over-use LLMs; see [37]). It would be extremely helpful if, until a viable alternative is available, platform owners could exhibit some social responsibility, or be compelled to exercise some social responsibility, by meaningful regulation.…”

Section: Future Redistributionmentioning

confidence: 99%