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Antoinette Rouvroy, The end(s) of critique. Data behaviourism versus due process. In Mireille Hildebrandt, Katja de Vries (Eds.). (2013). Privacy, Due Process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology (1st ed.). Routledge.
Book https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203427644

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Operations of collection, processing and structuration of data for purposes of datamining and profiling, helping individuals and organizations to cope with circumstances of uncertainty or relieving them from the burden of interpreting events and taking decision in routine, trivial situations have become crucial to public and private sectors’ activities in domains as various as crime prevention, health management, marketing or even entertainment.
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The distance between ‘the world’ and ‘reality’, this ‘unknown part of radical uncertainty’ has always been a challenge for institutions and, at the same times, a precondition for the possibility of critique if, by critique we mean, like Foucault (1990): the virtue consisting in challenging the very categories through which one is predisposed to perceive and evaluate people and situations of the world, rather than merely judging them according to these very categories.
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