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Personal Data and Surveillance: The Danger of the “Homo Conectus”
Teresa Coelho Moreira, Francisco Pacheco Andrade
115 - 124
10.3233/978-1-61499-690-3-115
Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Volume 21: Intelligent Environments 2016
Abstract

The use of electronic communications and open networks bring along serious risks for the fundamental rights of citizens. Cloud computing, RFIDs, ambient intelligence, software agents bring with them the danger of the “homo conectus”. As an example of the possibilities of control brought along by technologies, it must be analyzed the employment relationship. It must be enquired the existence of a right to disconnect.

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