Social Scoring, Technology and the Law

Comparative Perspectives
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-36228-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Globalization: Law and Policy

This volume explores the development of social scoring tools from a historical and comparative perspective. The aim is to dispel widespread misconceptions about social scoring and to better understand the benefits and dangers it generates. The book shows that social scoring was not born as a hyper-technological tool for behavioral control in 21st-century China; rather, it slowly emerged in the West from earlier pre-digital experiments with social quantification carried out from the early 20th century onward. Recent technological developments have made social scoring virtually ubiquitous. Yet as the book demonstrates, practices of social scoring never occur in a vacuum. Legal cultures and rules play a crucial role in shaping social scoring uses. Understanding the legal dimension of social scoring is therefore fundamental to appreciating at what conditions social scoring, instead of working as an efficient and neutral mechanism for deciding who is to be trusted, turns into a dangerous weapon of social exclusion. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policymakers working in the areas of comparative law, law and technology, and quantitative techniques for social sciences.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Infantino, Marta

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Medienrecht Telekommunikationsrecht, IT-Recht, Internetrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion Informationsarchitektur
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Datenbankdesign & Datenbanktheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why this book;  2. Technologies for social quantification and the law; 3. Insurance scoring  4. Credit scoring; 5. Scoring work and lifestyle;  6. Scoring by the state; 7. Social scoring in the world to come

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Infantino is Professor of Comparative Private Law at the University of Trieste, Italy.