Totalizing practices in modern democracies (philosophical and theoretical-law aspects) Cover Image

Totalizujące praktyki we współczesnych demokracjach (aspekty filozoficzne i teoretycznoprawne)
Totalizing practices in modern democracies (philosophical and theoretical-law aspects)

Author(s): Anetta Breczko, Alina Miruć
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Temida 2
Keywords: security privacy authority supervision surveillance information technologies

Summary/Abstract: In the present paper, we focus on diverse threats to the functioning of democraticsocieties, associated with technological progress. Information technologies can lead to the violation of human dignity and contribute to the transgression of human rights and freedoms. Authorities in democratic countries – thanks to new technological instruments – control and supervise areas of life that hitherto were considered private. This increasing state control leads us to the thesis that there is an incipient process of gradual convergence between democratic and totalitarian countries, and that totalizing practices become more and more pervasive in the functioning of modern democratic systems.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 20/B
  • Page Range: 13-30
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish