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Reimagining international law of privacy in the digital age
No full text© 2019 Kinfe Yilma DestaThis thesis examines the question of how international law should respond to the challenges of securing digital privacy. Driven mainly by the transnational nature of privacy threats involving private actors as well as States, calls are increasingly made for an ‘international’ privacy framework to meet these challenges. The thesis investigates such recurring calls from the perspective of two global privacy initiatives that posit a progressive vision for the right to privacy in the digital age. Using Internet Bill of Rights (IBRs) and the ongoing United Nations (UN) discourse on the ‘right to privacy in the digital age’ as case studies, it examines the role of emerging initiatives in reimagining current international law of privacy in the digital age. Scholarship investigating IBRs, the (data) privacy literature and the broader field of international law are yet to interrogate the role of, or situate, such initiatives in international law. Nor has international law’s role in addressing the ‘privacy problem’ in the digital environment been considered in the literature. In response to this lacuna, the thesis takes the novel approach of exploring the role of IBRs and the evolving UN privacy discourse in making international privacy law better-equipped in the digital age.
The thesis begins by examining whether current international law of privacy is equipped to address the challenges presented by the digital age. It finds that because of historical antecedents, the normative and institutional structures of international privacy law are ill-equipped to address the ‘privacy problem’ in the digital age. The thesis then examines the role of IBRs and the UN Privacy discourse in making the international law of privacy better-equipped in the digital age. It demonstrates that the ‘freestanding’ and ‘contributory’ roles of these initiatives are negligible, but they possess a ‘catalytic’ role which may shape the normative and methodological directions of a more practical reform.
Adopting a pragmatic approach, this thesis argues that addressing the privacy problem in the digital age requires reimagining the law along the direction charted in those initiatives but through an approach that is incremental, practical, multifaceted and programmatic. Mapped onto the overarching international human right to privacy framework and drawing upon global privacy initiatives, the thesis then proposes two layers of privacy law reform. It, first, presents the case for a soft law approach towards addressing normative gaps, and secondly, argues for a dialogical approach towards lessening institutional-structural gaps in international privacy law
Notes on the salient features of tax liens under Ethiopian law
No full textMIZAN LAW REVIEW Vol. 7 No.1, September 201
Reimaginando o constitucionalismo digital / Reimagining digital constitutionalism
No full textO constitucionalismo digital tem estado em voga nos
últimos anos. Uma série de artigos acadêmicos,
coletâneas e monografias que utilizam o termo-chave
proliferaram. Isso, por sua vez, inspirou um crescente
número de estudos críticos que questionam a coerência
normativa e teórica, bem como o valor epistêmico do
constitucionalismo digital. Os críticos lamentam o uso da
antiga noção de constitucionalismo para descrever o
que consideram ser meras iniciativas regulatórias e
autorregulatórias que não atendem aos seus mínimos
normativos essenciais bem estabelecidos. Ao retratar o
constitucionalismo digital sob essa ótica, esses críticos
o apresentam como um projeto impulsionado, ou mesmo
capturado, por atores do setor privado, a saber, as
grandes plataformas digitais. Este artigo busca desafiar
e trazer nuances a essas recentes críticas contundentes
ao constitucionalismo digital. Ao situar suas origens e
evolução no movimento das cartas de direitos digitais,
sustenta a necessidade de reimaginar o
constitucionalismo digital como um discurso. Assim, o
artigo espera reabilitar e esclarecer o papel e o valor
epistêmico do constitucionalismo digital como um
discurso incipiente, gradual e fundamentalmente
exortativo. De modo inovador, argumenta que enquadrar
o constitucionalismo digital como discurso descreve com
precisão suas dimensões ontológicas e normativas, ao
mesmo tempo em que responde às preocupações de
seus detratores.
Digital constitutionalism has been in vogue in recent
years.A series of journal articles, edited collections and
monographs that front the catch term have mushroomed.
This has, in turn, inspired a growing body of critical
scholarship that questions the normative and theoretical
coherence as well as epistemic value of digital
constitutionalism. Critics deplore the use of the age-old
notion of constitutionalism to describe what they
consider to be mere regulatory and self-regulatory
initiatives which do not meet its well-established core
normative minimums. In casting digital constitutionalism
in this light, critics present it as a Project driven primarily
or hijacked by private sector actors, namely big digital
platforms. This article seeks to challenge and bring some
nuance to such recent sharp criticisms of digital
constitutionalism. By positioning its origins and evolution
in the digital bill of rights movement, it makes the case
for reimagining digital constitutionalism as a discourse.
The article thus hopes to rehabilitate and clarify the role
and epistemic value of digital constitutionalism as a
discourse that is an inchoate, gradualist and
fundamentally hortatory. In a novel approach, it argues
that framing digital constitutionalism as a discourse
depicts accurately its ontological and normative
dimensions but also attends to the concerns of its
detractors
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Privacy and the role of international law in the digital age /
No full textExamines the role of international law in securing privacy and data protection in the digital age, considering the impact of the boundaries of international privacy law, and the potential of global privacy initiatives
Digital privacy and virtues of multilateral digital constitutionalism—preliminary thoughts
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