Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)
b'Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people\\u2014and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.\\nEver-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed to protect people. In\\xa0Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse\\xa0(MIT Press, 2023), Elizabeth Renieris argues that laws focused on data protection, data privacy, data security and data ownership have unintentionally failed to protect core human values, including privacy. And, as our collective obsession with data has grown, we have, to our peril, lost sight of what\\u2019s truly at stake in relation to technological development\\u2014our dignity and autonomy as people.\\nFar from being inevitable, our fixation on data has been codified through decades of flawed policy. Renieris provides a comprehensive history of how both laws and corporate policies enacted in the name of data privacy have been fundamentally incapable of protecting humans. Her research identifies the inherent deficiency of making data a rallying point in itself\\u2014data is not an objective truth, and what\\u2019s more, its \\u201centirely contextual and dynamic\\u201d status makes it an unstable foundation for organizing. In proposing a human rights\\u2013based framework that would center human dignity and autonomy rather than technological abstractions, Renieris delivers a clear-eyed and radically imaginative vision of the future.\\nAt once a thorough application of legal theory to technology and a rousing call to action,\\xa0Beyond Data\\xa0boldly reaffirms the value of human dignity and autonomy amid widespread disregard by private enterprise at the dawn of the metaverse.\\nJake Chanenson\\xa0is a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. Broadly, Jake is interested in topics relating to HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Jake\\u2019s\\xa0work has been published in top venues such as ACM\\u2019s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'