TY  - CHAP
A1  - Steiger, Dominik
ED  - Witzleb, Normann
ED  - Paterson, Moira
ED  - Richardson, Janice
T1  - International law and new challenges to democracy in the digital age
BT  - big data, privacy and interferences with the political process
T2  - Big data, political campaigning and the law : democracy and privacy in the age of micro-targeting
N2  - This chapter aims to analyse whether and how democracy is actually threatened by big-data-based operations and what role international law can play to respond to this possible threat. It shows how big-data-based operations challenge democracy and how international law can help in defending it. The chapter focuses on both state and non-state actors may undermine democracy through big data operations; although democracy as such is a rather underdeveloped concept in international law, which is often more concerned with effectivity than legitimacy – international law protects against these challenges via a democracy-based approach rooted in international human rights law on the one hand, and the principle of non-intervention on the other hand. Thus, although democracy does not play a major role in international law, international law nevertheless is able to protect democracy against challenges from the inside as well as outside.
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Law
KW  - Politics & International Relations
KW  - Social Sciences
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 9780429288654
SN  - 9780367230548
SN  - 9781032082554
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429288654
SP  - 71
EP  - 98
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  -