Decolonial thinking in Brazil: perspectives for overcoming digital colonialism through the protection of human rights
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Data wydania
2021
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Tytuł czasopisma
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1689-8052
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2451-0807
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Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM
Abstrakt
The effects of colonialism persist until the present day, although many of its characteristics
have been transformed through digital information technologies that enable algorithmically-
driven environments in which the lack of regulation and governance perpetrates
the exploitation of vulnerabilities. These colonial characteristics are equivalent to current
digital information activities and they refer to the more general concept of coloniality.
Thus, unlike colonialism, coloniality continues as a way of relating power, knowledge,
being and gender, but on a more sophisticated environment. The emergence of new information
and communication technologies, based on the mechanisms of Artificial Intelligence,
has favored a virtual environment called Infosphere, in which informationally
embodied organisms (inforgs), as well as the strengthening of a digital colonialism formed
by technological companies from the Global North, allow the accumulation of wealth
and profit at the expense of inequalities and social injustices imposed by a new hegemonic
digital colonialism that emerges and is guided by surveillance capitalism, which, once
again in history, causes epistemic violence in relation to other virtual knowledge sources,
insofar as it considers people as the product or raw material of this nefarious system. The
emergence of data protection laws all throughout the globe is still a recent phenomenon,
but clearly not sufficiently effective as a counterpoint for the problem at hand. Improving
information and AI ethics and algorithm development governance have been widely
discussed and praised as adequate means to overcoming and/or diminishing the impacts
of such unwanted practices. Even though that might still be regarded by some as a farfetched
idea in a world of intercultural variety, pluralistic approaches to its understanding
are an essential way of improving regulation. The Brazilian legal frameworks for Internet,
privacy and data protection, which the research article will seek to deeply analyze, are still
surrounded by skepticism due to the incipient sanction and liability enforcement mechanisms.
Decolonial thinking is definitely an important subject and critically discussing the
ever-challenging reality of the few global elites that currently dominate the Infosphere is
an important step towards the desired ethical approach in Brazilian AI development. The
forthcoming article has its main objective focused on the study of decolonial thinking in
the aforementioned context of new hegemonic digital colonialism in Brazil. To achieve
that goal, the deductive approach method shall be used, from the analysis of general premises
in order to reach a particular conclusion, as well as bibliographic research.
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Studia Prawnicze. Rozprawy i materiały 2021, nr 2, s. 43-53.