Challenging the Carceral Imaginary in a Digital Age: Epistemic Asymmetries and the Right to Be Forgotten

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Andrea J. Pitts
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This paper argues that debates regarding legal protections to preserve the privacy of data subjects, such as those involving the European Union’s right to be forgotten, have tended to overlook group-level forms of epistemic asymmetry and their impact on members of historically oppressed groups. In response, I develop what I consider an abolitionist approach to issues of digital justice. I begin by exploring international debates regarding digital privacy and the right to be forgotten. Then, I turn to the long history of informational asymmetries impacting racialized populations in the United States. Such asymmetries, I argue, comprise epistemic injustices that are also implicated within the patterns of racialized incarceration in the United States. The final section brings together questions regarding the impact of such epistemic injustices on incarcerated peoples and focuses specifically on the public availability of criminal histories in online search databases as a fundamental issue within conversations regarding digital justice. I thus conclude by building from the work of contemporary abolitionist writers to argue that the underlying concerns of an individualized right to be forgotten should be transformed into a collective effort to undermine societal carceral imaginaries.
挑战数字时代的虚拟世界:认知不对称和被遗忘的权利
本文认为,关于保护数据主体隐私的法律保护的辩论,例如涉及欧盟被遗忘权的辩论,往往忽视了群体层面的认知不对称形式及其对历史上受压迫群体成员的影响。作为回应,我提出了一种我认为是废奴主义的方法来解决数字正义问题。我从探讨关于数字隐私和被遗忘权的国际辩论开始。然后,我转向影响美国种族化人口的信息不对称的悠久历史。我认为,这种不对称构成了认知上的不公正,这种不公正也与美国种族化监禁的模式有关。最后一部分汇集了关于这种认知不公正对被监禁者的影响的问题,并特别关注在线搜索数据库中犯罪历史的公开可用性,这是关于数字正义对话中的一个基本问题。因此,我从当代废奴主义作家的作品中得出结论,认为个人被遗忘权的潜在担忧应该转变为一种集体努力,以破坏社会对奴隶制的想象。
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期刊介绍: The scientific scope of Las Torres de Lucca (International Journal of Political Philosophy) will be to comprehend the characteristics of political philosophy, in line with the interdisciplinary character that has operated in this field during the last several years. We welcome contributions from the areas traditionally linked directly to political philosophy (moral philosophy, philosophy of law, political theory), as well as from those that have been incorporated up to the present day (political economy, philosophy of history, psychology, neurophysiology and, to a lesser extent, other sciences) as long as their scope is focused on the treatment of public affairs and sheds light on contemporary political reflections. In the same way, the reference to classic problems should be brought to bear on contemporary questions. The journal does not commit itself to any school of thought, style or ideology. However, we do commit ourselves to argumentative rigor and expositive clarity. Thus, the new publication is directed towards the academic environment and designed for the specialized reader; but the publication also aspires to awake interest in the reader who is not technically formed in these disciplines, but is interested by the public questions that inevitably affect him or her. We expect that the scope of the journal will be international. Thus, articles will be published in Spanish and English, and original articles in French, Portuguese, Italian, or German will be accepted as exceptions (depending on their quality and relevance), translated into Spanish and published in a bilingual format. We are particularly interested in covering the Spanish/Latin American realm, particularly lacking in specialized publications of this type. With this in mind, we count on experts from the distinct countries included in this geographic area.
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