2024 | Buch

Disconnecting Sovereignty

How Data Fragmentation Reshapes the Law

verfasst von: Mariavittoria Catanzariti

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : Law, Governance and Technology Series

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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Über dieses Buch

Dieses Buch untersucht die dynamische rechtliche Semantik von Territorien, wie sie auf Daten angewendet wird. Es bietet eine theoretische Bewertung der rechtlichen Herausforderungen, die Datenströme für das Territorialitätsprinzip und die staatliche Souveränität im Allgemeinen darstellen. Das Konzept der Souveränität hat sich traditionell in enger Verbindung mit der Ausübung von Befugnissen über ein Territorium entwickelt, und Ideen der Zuständigkeit basieren immer auf dem Prinzip der Territorialität. Die Digitalisierung stellt jedoch die Idee physischer Grenzen selbst in Frage. Vernetzte Netzwerke machen Daten praktisch grenzenlos. Daten können tatsächlich jederzeit und von überall erstellt, gespeichert, verarbeitet und abgerufen werden. Die Idee des Buches ist optimistisch: Das Gesetz kann mit der Fähigkeit von Daten Schritt halten, die Realität zu fragmentieren. Voraussetzung dafür ist, dass die Souveränität vom Territorium abgekoppelt wird. Die Trennung bedeutet nicht, das Territorium ein für alle Mal loszuwerden, sie bedeutet lediglich, dass es für Daten Alternativen zur territorialen Verbindung gibt. Die Analyse konzentriert sich auf Daten aus einer ganzheitlichen Perspektive (persönlich und nicht persönlich) mit dem Ziel, divergierende und konvergente Lösungen zu untersuchen, die von verschiedenen Rechtszweigen (Datenschutz, Recht des geistigen Eigentums, Völkerrecht und Grundrechtsschutz) bereitgestellt werden. Sie untersucht insbesondere die Beziehungen zwischen Digitalisierung und dem Prinzip der Territorialität und konzentriert sich dabei auf die spezifischen rechtlichen Aspekte: die Verbindungen zwischen Recht und Territorium; die Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die staatliche Souveränität; den Einsatz von Extraterritorialität zur Umgehung territorialer Beschränkungen des Datenflusses; den Aufstieg der digitalen Gerichtsbarkeit und ihre Herausforderungen; das Zusammenspiel zwischen digitaler Gerichtsbarkeit und staatlicher Souveränität und die alternativen technologischen und rechtlichen Lösungen zur Datenlokalisierung.

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Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Introduction

Abstract

This chapter investigates how the conceptualization of territory and sovereignty as the related legal constructions are affected by data flows, and whether and how the results are relevant for digital law. It gives account of the book’s title, linking the epistemics of legal constructions to information technologies and their primary source, which is data. It defines data fragmentation and argues for its potential to reconfigure new pathways for sovereignty then shaping the law. It ultimately includes a plan of the book that is divided into an introduction plus six chapters revolving around the architecture of data spatiality, the theoretical debate between Kelsen and Schmitt on territoriality, the juridification of an on-line space, data extraterritoriality, the concept of data sovereignty and its technical requirements, the alternative to territoriality in data regulation.

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Chapter 2. The Territory of Data or the Data of the Territorial State? The Shift of a Paradigm

Abstract

This chapter explores the issue of spatiality with respect to data. It addresses the reasons why the state’s sovereignty needs to apply the principle of territoriality to appropriate fictitious or physical shares of power. By introducing the notion of territoriality and the implications of its applicability to data, the chapter attempts to answer this question: whether territory can be deployed as a formal container or instead it is an inherent legal mechanism to exert sovereignty over data flows. Moving on this ambivalence, the relation between territory and data has been set up differently depending on the prominence of each concept. In the first case, data relates to a corporeal concept being able to occupy a limited space, which is territorial; in the second case, the relevance of territory is more normative in the sense that it exerts traction over objects regardless of their materiality.

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Chapter 3. The Off-line Juridification of an On-line Space

Abstract

This chapter shows how doctrinal legal debates and solutions have sought to reconcile the regulation of digital transformation throughout physical coordinates. It investigates the application of the online mimesis of the physical world, but it shows how the result turned to be the opposite: the territorialization of the digital sphere through the application of territorial limitations to data. The chapter focuses on the contrasting theories related to Kelsenian normativism and Schmittian decisionism, offering two models of dealing with territoriality. Moving from the dichotomy decisionism/normativism as applied to digital space, the chapter finally addresses the relationship between data governance and infrastructures but also conceptualizes the idea of data space as a functional modality of data sharing whose function replaces space.

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Chapter 4. Codifying Digital Extraterritoriality

Abstract

This chapter waves the thread of the use and overuse of extraterritorial claims as a way to apply the territorial logic of data regulation, offering critical reflections on territorial drift and its consequences in various areas of the law, such as cyberspace and data protection. In particular, it focuses on the rise of extraterritorial claims over data as one of the ways by which the clash between territoriality and data has been addressed in digital regulation. It argues that the exceptional use of extraterritoriality has become a “new normal” in the regulation of cross-border data flows, increasing the territorial scope of application of the law outside borders.

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Chapter 5. Digital Jurisdiction and Data Sovereignty

Abstract

This chapter reconfigures the boundaries between any idea of digital jurisdiction and the increasing quest for data sovereignty, focusing on the example of data localization requirements. Two apparently conflicting concepts emerge: digital jurisdiction, which potentially opens its remit beyond borders of any kind, and data sovereignty, which basically overlaps with the idea that physical borders overlap with digital borders. It examines the consequences of technology’s ability to replicate territory through digital borders and questions the risk that the overuse of territoriality can circumvent technological neutrality and undermine geo-political order.

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Chapter 6. How Technology Replaces Territory

Abstract

This chapter finally offers an account of alternatives to territoriality, trying to dig into a new reconceptualisation of the relationship between sovereignty and data. It aims to demonstrate that the future of data governance depends on the ability of sovereignty to disconnect from territory and envisages a possible pathway by exploring under what conditions it could be feasible to create alternatives for territoriality.

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Chapter 7. Conclusions

Abstract

This book stemmed from the awareness of the difficulty of betraying territoriality in the global order of data. It started from the binary vision of the world nestled between the Schmittian need for concrete sovereignty over space, and the Kelsenian quest for universal jurisdiction for which sovereignty can be denied, but it remained stuck between back and forth.

Conceptually, although this book is profoundly inspired by this opposition, it has attempted to overcome it by moving from assumptions that depart from the two theories examined. The aim pursued has been to conceptualize alternatives to territoriality with respect to data regulation.

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Backmatter

Titel: Disconnecting Sovereignty
verfasst von: Mariavittoria Catanzariti
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-60734-9
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-60733-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60734-9