Towards Rawlsian ‘property-owning democracy’ through personal data platform cooperatives
Citation:
Loi, M., Dehaye, P. & Hafen, E. (2020). “Towards Rawlsian ‘property-owning democracy’ through personal data platform cooperatives”. In
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Published online: 16 Jun 2020. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis. Retrieved June 28, 2020 from https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2020.1782046
Work data:
Type of work: Article (academic)
ISSN: 1743-8772
Categories:
ICT Infrastructure | Politics and Political ScienceTags:
data, cooperativismAbstract:
This paper supports the personal data platform cooperative as a means of bringing about John Rawls’s favoured institutional realisation of a just society, the property-owning democracy. It describes personal data platform cooperatives and applies Rawls’s political philosophy to analyse the institutional forms of a just society in relation to the economic power deriving from aggregating personal data. It argues that a society involving a significant number of personal data platform cooperatives will be more suitable to realising Rawls’s principle of fair equality of opportunity.
