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The Quantified Body: Identity, Empowerment, and Control in Smart Wearables
Maijunxian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15991 https://a…

The Quantified Body: Identity, Empowerment, and Control in Smart Wearables
In an era where bodies are increasingly rendered as streams of biometric data, smart wearables have emerged not only as tools of self-optimization but as infrastructures of predictive governance. This paper critically examines how devices such as the Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Oura Ring reconfigure bodily autonomy through feedback-driven self-surveillance, while embedding users within opaque systems of data extraction and algorithmic control. Drawing on Deleuze's concept of the control society, Z…

Self-driving technologies need the help of the public: A narrative review of the evidence
Jonathan Smith, Siddartha Khastgir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23472

Self-driving technologies need the help of the public: A narrative review of the evidence
If public trust is lot in a new technology early in its life cycle it can take much more time for the benefits of that technology to be realised. Eventually tens-of-millions of people will collectively have the power to determine self-driving technology success of failure driven by their perception of risk, data handling, safety, governance, accountability, benefits to their life and more. This paper reviews the evidence on safety critical technology covering trust, engagement, and acceptance. …

Programmable Governance for Group-Controlled Decentralized Identifiers
Carlo Segat, Sandro Rodriguez Garzo, Axel K\"upper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06001

Programmable Governance for Group-Controlled Decentralized Identifiers
Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a paradigm for digital identity management that offers unique privacy advantages. A key technology in SSI is Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and their associated metadata, DID Documents (DDOs). DDOs contain crucial verification material such as the public keys of the entity identified by the DID (i.e., the DID subject) and are often anchored on a distributed ledger to ensure security and availability. Long-lived DIDs need to support updates (e.g., key rotation)…