Venturini, J, Louzada, L, Maciel, M et al. (3 more authors) (2016) Terms of Service and Human Rights: an Analysis of Online Platform Contracts. Editora Revan , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ISBN 978-85-7106-574-1
Abstract
From the late 1990s to early 2000s, the Internet was considered as a tool able to directly connect users to providers, buyers to sellers, the public to authors, thereby eliminating a number of traditional intermediaries in a phenomenon identified then as 'disintermediation'. However, data traffic between senders and receivers in the Internet depends on the existence of a number of private agents in infrastructural, logic and content layers. Because of that, it seems more correct to state that the Internet does not determine disintermediation, but that it encourages the emergence of new intermediaries, which replace some of the agents who played essential roles before. It is possible to observe the emergence of a wide range of particularly powerful private entities with the ability to regulate the access and dissemination of information through private agreements, and to collect large amounts of personal information about users and their activities.
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Item Type: | Book |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2018 12:54 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2018 12:54 |
Published Version: | http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/dspace/handle/1043... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Editora Revan |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133042 |