Technology and liberty: Enriching the conversation

Technology and Rights

“…National identity cards will be required for tracking quotidian activities such as business and medical transactions. Rights groups now seriously question whether privacy is possible in this developing infrastructure of remote and intimate surveillance (Brin 1998;Marker 1987;OTA 1987;Tatum 1996).…”

“…For example, the tomato-picking machine developed at the University of California in the 1990s was responsible for the elimination of 32,000 tomato picking jobs. The question is whether this government-sponsored infringement on the rights to a livelihood for tomato pickers was justifiable, even if the technology was profitable and promised a net benefit to society (Tatum 1996). Exemplifying majoritarian ethics, experts calculated that the automated tomato picker would have a net benefit to society.…”

“…The few general sources that exist emphasize a single orientation in areas such as ethics (McGinn 1994;Tatum 1996), law (Volk 1994), political philosophy (Doppelt 2001;Feenberg 2001) or privacy (Brin 1998). Rights analysts traditionally address technology through specialized topics, such as bioethics and cloning (Rollin 1999;Schurman & Kelso 2003), child labor (de Berry 2001;Myers 2001), economics and globalization (Nickel 2002;Pogge 2000, Weeramantry 1993, infoethics (Smith 2001), the patenting of nature and traditional knowledge rights (Haraway 1997;Mashelkar 2001;Shiva 1997Shiva , 2001a, reproductive technology rights (Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies 2000) and robot rights (Freitas 1985).…”

“…A new stream of rights acting as a safeguard against further incursions of technology into civil liberties is addressed. We question, a la McGinn (1994) and Tatum (1996), whether majoritarian ethics are adequate in guiding minoritarian rights. In the final analysis, we localize the topic of rights in terms of technological literacy.…”

Levantamento das concepções de tecnologia e educação tecnologica de professores de ciencias da escola basica

“…A respeito da relação entre a tecnologia e os direitos democráticos, Tatum (1996) faz um levantamento de como o desenvolvimento tecnológico e as políticas governamentais a ele associadas podem infringir certos direitos e liberdades básicas como a dignidade humana, a liberdade de religião, de expressão e outras. Esses direitos podem estar sendo infringidos mesmo em sociedades ditas democráticas, à medida que hábitos de vida são modificados, empregos e ramos de trabalho deixam de existir e ideologias associadas a transformações tecnológicas se impõem.…”