The Death of the Data Subject.
This paper situates the data privacy debate in the context of what I call the death of the data subject. My central claim is that concept of a rights-bearing data subject is being pulled in two contradictory directions at once, and that simultaneous attention to these is necessary to understand and...
| Publicado en: | Law, Culture & the Humanities Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 527 - 548 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct2024
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