Code is Power. Coding, User Dependency and Human Rights

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Law - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: It has been said by Lawrence Lessing that “code is law”. This is true already in a society which is dependent on information technology. Even though machines are not full members of this society yet, we already entrust a number of very personal and important functions to them. In many cases, this trust goe...