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LI Lujun, PAN Jun
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DOI:10.17265/1548-6605/2026.01.004
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China
The rapid expansion of digital technologies has reshaped social relations while generating systemic pressures on security, dignity, and equality. Rather than producing isolated risks, platform governance, algorithmic decision-making, and data monopolization collectively restructure the conditions under which individual development takes place. Platform rule-making power functions as a form of “digital Leviathan”, algorithmic opacity erodes human agency, and data concentration reconfigures patterns of social participation and resource distribution. This article conceptualizes development rights as an integrated structure composed of security, dignity, and equality, understood as jointly necessary conditions rather than independent claims. By examining the normative tensions that arise when these conditions are protected under digital governance, the article offers a structural perspective for understanding how development may be constrained even in the absence of explicit rights violations.
digital power, individual development rights, coordinated protection
LI Lujun, PAN Jun.Reconfiguring Individual Development Rights Under Digital Technologies: A Structural Imbalance Perspective.
US-China Law Review, Jan.-Feb. 2026, Vol. 23, No. 1, 45-54
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