260 Pages
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Routledge-Cavendish
260 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
260 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
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The digital age began in 1939 with the construction of the first digital computer. In the sixty-five years that have followed, the influence of digitisation on our everyday lives has grown steadily and today digital technology has a greater influence on our lives than at any time since its development. This book examines the role played by digital technology in both the exercise and... Read more
Introduction: Human Rights and Equity in Cyberspace. Pixels, Pimps and Prostitutes: Human Rights and the Cyber Sex Trade. The New Face of Child Pornography. Regulating Hatred. Free Expression and Defamation. Internet Service Providers and Liability. The Digital Divide: Why the 'the' is misleading. Filtering, Blocking and Rating: Chaperones or Censorship? Firewalls and Power: An Overview of Global State Censorship of the Internet. Cyber Property. Virtual Sit-Ins, Civil Disobedience and Cyberterrorism. Privacy: Charting its Developments and Prospects. Employee Surveillance. Privacy, Surveillance and Identity. Should States Have a Right to Informational Privacy? Code, Access Control. Biotechnology and Rights: Where We are Coming From and Where are we Going?
Biography
Mathias Klang, Andrew Murray
"These kinds of issues are difficult but they are what set the ethical framework for the future. Books like that edited by Mathias Klang and Andrew Murray on Human Rights in the Digital Age, should be required reading for all those interested in the future good health of our subject.
It is the future battlegrounds that Human Rights supporters should be identifying and occupying, not wasting valuable time and energy re-fighting old wars." - Professor Conor Gearty in "Can Human Rights Survive?", Oxford University Press, 2006
