Table of Contents

Contents: 1. Introduction: Diana’s onlife world 2. Smartness and Agency 3. The Onlife World 4. The Digital Unconscious: Back to Diana 5. Threats to Fundamental Rights in the Onlife World 6. The Other Side of Privacy: Agency and Privacy in Japan 7. The Ends of Law: Address and Redress 8. Intricate Entanglements of Law and Technology 9. The Fundamental Right of Data Protection 10. The End of Law or Legal Protection by Design References Index

About the Author

Mireille Hildebrandt, Research Professor of Interfacing Law and Technology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Full Professor of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Reviews

‘Hildebrandt’s book is thought-provoking and a needed contribution to discussions of the impacts of smart technologies.’
*Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech, Science and Public Policy*

‘In this challenging book, Mireille Hildebrandt again shows just how far she thinks ahead of the curve. Exploring the implications of the technological changes that are impelling humans towards an “onlife” world - a world of data-driven agency, the Internet of Things, and a radically different information and communication infrastructure - Hildebrandt asks how law can maintain its mission for justice, certainty and purposiveness. Having joined Hildebrandt in this new world, readers will find it difficult to put the book down.’
*Roger Brownsword, Kings College London, UK*

‘In sum, the depth and precision with which Hildebrandt provides her insights is uncommon and striking, making this book (as law professor Andrew Murray remarks in his rear-cover endorsement) one of the few “must reads” within the field. Its content is provocative and challenging, having an appeal that is sure to reach far beyond the field of legal scholarship to accompanying disciplines of computing, science and philosophy from which the book draws. Likewise, it is clear that Hildebrandt benefits from working between the disciplines of law and computer science, with her experience in computer science departments evident in the way in which she sensitively translates between, and explores, the separate logics of law and technology.’
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‘Do conceptions of the Rule of Law reflect timeless truths, or are they in fact contingent on a particular information and communications infrastructure - one that we are fast leaving behind? Hildebrandt has engineered a provocative encounter between law and networked digital technologies that cuts to the heart of the dilemma confronting legal institutions in a networked world.’
*Julie E. Cohen, Georgetown University, US*