Between Empowerment and Manipulation: The Ethics and Regulation of For-Profit Health Apps
Abstract
Between Empowerment and Manipulation is an extensive ethical analysis with novel interpretations of European unfair commercial practices law on health apps and commercial digital choice environment. Health apps are incredibly compelling in their own right. Despite the promise of empowerment they offer, the tensions introduced by their data-driven, dynamically adjustable digital environments engender a potential for manipulation to which their designers and operators can easily succumb. In this important book, the author develops an ethical framework on how apps use their complete power over the design and operation of the digital environments to shape user-app relationships.
Consumer law, health apps, Kluwer Information Law Series, manipulation, unfair commercial practices
Bibtex
Book{Sax2021f,
title = {Between Empowerment and Manipulation: The Ethics and Regulation of For-Profit Health Apps},
author = {Sax, M.},
url = {https://www.ivir.nl/sax_info_47-2/},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-09-30},
abstract = {Between Empowerment and Manipulation is an extensive ethical analysis with novel interpretations of European unfair commercial practices law on health apps and commercial digital choice environment. Health apps are incredibly compelling in their own right. Despite the promise of empowerment they offer, the tensions introduced by their data-driven, dynamically adjustable digital environments engender a potential for manipulation to which their designers and operators can easily succumb. In this important book, the author develops an ethical framework on how apps use their complete power over the design and operation of the digital environments to shape user-app relationships.},
keywords = {Consumer law, health apps, Kluwer Information Law Series, manipulation, unfair commercial practices},
}