Rights by Architecture: A Human-Compatible Sociotechnical Layer for Digital Protection Across Regulatory Regimes

📅 2026-09-02
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本文通过构建一个标准化、机器可读的双向通信权利层,解决了数字权利在信息系统中难以实现的问题。
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Digital rights increasingly exist in law but remain difficult to exercise through the information systems that mediate them. Using disciplined conceptual synthesis and problematization, this critical-conceptual IS paper explains the gap through the interaction of legal heterogeneity, conflicting organizational and commercial incentives, fragmented architectures, and asymmetrical control over rights-relevant acts. It then theorizes a human-compatible rights layer: a governed sociotechnical capability for standardized, machine-readable, bidirectional, and jurisdictionally plural communication of requests, consent, refusal, withdrawal, objection, records, and support. Comparing California-style opt-out signals, the EU's mixed lawful-basis regime, and P3P, DNT, GPC, and ADPC, the paper derives seven normative requirements, develops rights by architecture as a bounded emancipatory policy argument, and treats a proposed GDPR provision on automated and machine-readable privacy management as a policy case for moving from banner-based compliance toward rights-supporting digital infrastructure.
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digital rights
legal heterogeneity
organizational and commercial incentives
fragmented architectures
asymmetrical control
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human-compatible rights layer
sociotechnical capability
machine-readable communication
jurisdictionally plural
digital infrastructure
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Soheil Human
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria; IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Linz, Austria; Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands