{"product_id":"beyond-data-isbn-9780262047821","title":"Beyond Data","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver-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 \u003ci\u003eBeyond Data\u003c\/i\u003e, 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’s truly at stake in relation to technological development—our dignity and autonomy as people.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFar 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—data is not an objective truth, and what’s more, its “entirely contextual and dynamic” status makes it an unstable foundation for organizing. In proposing a human rights–based framework that would center human dignity and autonomy rather than technological abstractions, Renieris delivers a clear-eyed and radically imaginative vision of the future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAt once a thorough application of legal theory to technology and a rousing call to action, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Data\u003c\/i\u003e boldly reaffirms the value of human dignity and autonomy amid widespread disregard by private enterprise at the dawn of the metaverse.Author's Note vii\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003ePrologue xi\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Before Data\u003cbr\u003e1 The Main Frame 13\u003cbr\u003e2 Update Failed 33\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Data, Data Everywhere \u003cbr\u003e3 The Singular-ity 59\u003cbr\u003e4 (Data) Privacy, the Handmaiden 77\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Beyond Data\u003cbr\u003e5 A Brave New World 99\u003cbr\u003e6 Against the Datafication of Life 123\u003cbr\u003e7 Back to the Future: A Return to Human Rights 149\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 173\u003cbr\u003eNotes 175\u003cbr\u003eIndex 215“\u003ci\u003eBeyond Data\u003c\/i\u003e is both a compelling historical review as well as a powerful call to action, with its main strength being the latter. Although the book’s detailed explanation of the events and developments that have brought us to our current situation regarding data legislation is informative and well-explained, it is Renieris’s defence of a new understanding of human rights for a digital world which makes her work a truly compelling work.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e– Engineering \u0026amp; Technology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBeyond Data\u003c\/i\u003e documents policymakers’ abject failure to prevent technology from undermining human autonomy for profit, even when core values like democracy and public health are imperiled.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Roger McNamee, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eZucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Renieris illuminates profound and urgent privacy challenges that we must confront in a post-digital world and sketches out an intriguing human rights–based solution.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law and Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Renieris has written a groundbreaking and timely book. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Data\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case for how human rights standards are more important than ever if technology is going to serve humanity—not the other way around.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rebecca MacKinnon, author of \u003ci\u003eConsent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Accessible, insightful, and well-written, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about our collective post-digital futures.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sushma Raman, Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBeyond Data\u003c\/i\u003e carefully details how the singular focus on data—not people—directed society toward surveillance capitalism and crucially charts the way forward through data governance rooted in human rights.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chris Gilliard, Just Tech Fellow, Social Science Research Council \u003c\/b\u003eElizabeth M. Renieris\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. A lawyer by training, her academic research focuses on cross-border data governance and the ethical implications of emerging technologies.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303815237861,"sku":"NP9780262047821","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262047821.jpg?v=1767722521","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/beyond-data-isbn-9780262047821","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}