Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era : Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies

Globalization, along with its digital and information communication technology counterparts, including the Internet and cyberspace, may signify a whole new era for human rights, characterized by new tensions, challenges, and risks for human rights, as well as new opportunities. Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies explores the emergence and evolution of ‘digital’ rights that challenge and transform more traditional legal, political, and historical understandings of human rights. Academic and legal scholars will explore individual, national, and international democratic dilemmas--sparked by economic and environmental crises, media culture, data collection, privatization, surveillance, and security--that alter the way individuals and societies think about, regulate, and protect rights when faced with new challenges and threats. The book not only uncovers emerging changes in discussions of human rights, it proposes legal remedies and public policies to mitigate the challenges posed by new technologies and globalization.

Christina Akrivopoulou holds a PhD in Constitutional Law. Her main research interests concern human and constitutional rights, the protection of the right to privacy, data protection, the private-public distinction and citizenship. She teaches law as a Special Scientist in the faculty of Political Sciences of the Democritus University of Thrace and in the Hellenic Open University, in Greece where she currently lives. She also is a post doctoral researcher of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and she works as an attorney of law at the Thessaloniki Law Bar Association. She is collaborating with several Greek law reviews and she is a member of many non-governmental human rights organizations in Greece and abroad. She has edited for IGI the volume, "Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era: Technologies and Practices" which has been published in 2010.

Nikolaos Garipidis is Attorney at Law in the Thessaloniki Bar Association in Greece. He has an LLM in Legal Theory from EALT Brussels and an LLM in History, Philosophy and Methodology of Law from the Aristotle University of the Thessaloniki, where he is currently concluding his doctoral thesis. His main research interests concern democratic theory, the counter majoritarian difficulty, constitutional power, redistributive justice and the right to disobedience.