Category: Digital Ethics
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Kant on Digital Autonomy: Balancing Individual Rights with Cybersecurity Duties
After delving into Kant’s Categorical Imperative and its application in cybersecurity in our previous post, we now turn our attention to a crucial concept: digital autonomy. In a world where data privacy is often in the crosshairs of cybersecurity threats, how can Immanuel Kant’s ideas help us navigate this challenging terrain? Understanding Digital Autonomy:Digital autonomy…
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Part 3: Unveiling the Digital Fetishism: Exploring the Hidden Social Relations Behind Information, Data, and Privacy
In Karl Marx’s work “Capital,” he introduced the concept of commodity fetishism, wherein the social relations between people are obscured by the exchange-value of commodities. While Marx primarily applied this concept to traditional commodities, such as goods and services, its relevance extends to the realm of information, data, and privacy in our digital age. In…