نوع مقاله : مقالات انگلیسی
نویسنده
استادیار، گروه حقوق بین الملل، دانشکده حقوق و علوم سیاسی، دانشگاه خوارزمی، تهران، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
Digital infrastructures no longer merely support public decision-making; they increasingly shape the range of decisions that public institutions can make. This article asks how data centers and artificial intelligence systems acquire public authority without entering the institutional forms through which public law ordinarily identifies competence, legitimacy, and responsibility. It combines conceptual analysis with a functional comparison of Amazon Web Services and the European Union’s regulatory framework, followed by a structural examination of Iranian law. The article develops the concept of data-infrastructural governance to describe authority exercised ex ante through architecture, access rules, and computational classification rather than ex post through commands alone. The comparison reveals two contrasting trajectories: private cloud infrastructures can convert contractual and technical design choices into public constraints, while the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, Data Governance Act, and Artificial Intelligence Act seek to reconnect digital power to rights, oversight, and human dignity. Iran’s framework remains fragmented across institutions and sectoral rules and does not yet provide a coherent regime for automated public decision-making. The article proposes a three-layer model covering infrastructure, algorithms, and data to make digital authority legally visible, contestable, and attributable.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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