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Opinion on Democracy in the digital age

(2023)
Abstract
Recent years have seen profound challenges to democracy, including grave populist and autocratic shifts. In the Opinion, the EGE examines how certain configurations of digital technologies can contribute to a weakening of democratic institutions, even if they may not be its sole cause. Among these are the spread of harmful information, an unduly narrow understanding of privacy, algorithmic surveillance, manipulation and discrimination, foreign interference, and the expansion of Big Tech into public sectors. The EGE warns that democracy can quickly become an empty shell if it is not underpinned by fundamental rights and the values it seeks to protect and promote.
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contributor
Biller-Andorno, Nikola ; LU and Vidalis, Takis
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Book/Report
publication status
published
subject
keywords
Demokrati, Digitalisering, Risk
publisher
Publications Office of the European Union
ISBN
978-92-76-99773-3
DOI
10.2777/078780
language
English
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yes
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20108699-85e8-406d-8812-4a3fd4573063
date added to LUP
2023-08-10 12:43:01
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2023-08-10 13:17:02
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