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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02455v1
• Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:27:06 GMT
• Title: Rights by Architecture: A Human-Compatible Sociotechnical Layer for Digital Protection Across Regulatory Regimes
• Abstract summary: This critical-conceptual IS paper explains the gap through the interaction of legal heterogeneity, conflicting organizational and commercial incentives, fragmented architectures, and asymmetrical control over rights-relevant acts.<n>It then theorizes a human-compatible rights layer: a governed socio-technical capability for standardized, machine-readable, bidirectional, and jurisdictionally plural communication of requests, consent, refusal, withdrawal, objection, records, and support.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: 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 heterogeneity, conflicting organizational and commercial incentives, fragmented architectures, and asymmetrical control over rights-relevant acts. It then theorizes a human-compatible rights layer: a governed sociotechnical capability for standardized, machine-readable, bidirectional, and jurisdictionally plural communication of requests, consent, refusal, withdrawal, objection, records, and support. Comparing California-style opt-out signals, the EU's mixed lawful-basis regime, and P3P, DNT, GPC, and ADPC, the paper derives seven normative requirements, develops rights by architecture as a bounded emancipatory policy argument, and treats a proposed GDPR provision on automated and machine-readable privacy management as a policy case for moving from banner-based compliance toward rights-supporting digital infrastructure.

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