Technological totalitarianism, politics and democracy
summary
Argues digitization and Big Data can enable democracy or a new totalitarianism and treats personal data as the 21st‑century commons worth legal protection. Urges a charter of fundamental rights for the digital age, cites the European data protection package and the ECJ Safe Harbor ruling as concrete leverage, warns that Facebook Google Alibaba Amazon must not become de facto regulators, and calls for using competition law, tighter data‑security rules and clearer remuneration rules so publishers and creators get paid.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:43The future will be great
- 4:45The dangers of data mining
- 6:11Democracy
- 7:35Building a transnational democracy
- 9:05European identity
- 10:35Data protection
- 11:57A just society
- 14:52Data protection and data security
- 16:11The European Union
- 17:38cartels and monopolies
- 19:01pay for creativity
- 20:22conclusion
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