Mardi intime de la Chaire Hoover par Sara Suarez Gonzalo

Data-driven technologies have relevant implications in our daily lives, affecting our democracies and fundamental rights. Getting a job, crossing borders, receiving public assistance or keeping informed are increasingly technologically mediated. However, within the last decades, tech giants have not only monopolised digital markets, but also have reached a privileged position to decide on the development and use of these technologies, often leaving citizens and political institutions aside. Facing this situation, the idea of digital sovereignty has gained importance to claim that these decisions should be democratically subject to popular control. To move towards digital sovereignty, the following three problems must be addressed, though: data domination, techno-elitism and techno-solutionism.