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Do We Need Subsidiarity in Software?
Louisa Conwill, Megan Levis Scheirer, Walter Scheirer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1346…

Do We Need Subsidiarity in Software?
Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that promotes human dignity and resists over-centralization by balancing personal autonomy with intervention from higher authorities only when necessary. Thus it is a relevant, but not previously explored, critical lens for discerning the tradeoffs between complete user control of software and surrendering control to "big tech" for convenience, as is common in surveillance capitalism. Our study explores data privacy through the lens of subsidia…