Function Creep, Altered Affordances, and Safeguard Rollbacks: The Many Ways to Slip on a Slippery Slope

Markus Naarttijärvi (author)

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Title	Function Creep, Altered Affordances, and Safeguard Rollbacks: The Many Ways to Slip on a Slippery Slope
Contributor	Markus Naarttijärvi (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.17176/20220411-131207-0
Landing page	http://verfassungsblog.local/en/os6-function-creep/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Publisher	Verfassungsblog
Published on	2025-09-10
Long abstract	Alongside the expansion of surveillance regimes, there is a parallel development of equal importance, through what could be described as safeguard rollbacks. These are different from surveillance creep, in that the aim and purpose of surveillance mandates remains largely the same, but the associated safeguards are gradually weakened. These rollbacks have generally taken place where mandates were initially put in place with strict limits to ensure proportionality and legal certainty, but where the effectiveness of those mandates are later argued to be limited due to the safeguards themselves.
Language	German (Original)

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Markus Naarttijärvi

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Umeå University

Alongside the expansion of surveillance regimes, there is a parallel development of equal importance, through what could be described as safeguard rollbacks. These are different from surveillance creep, in that the aim and purpose of surveillance mandates remains largely the same, but the associated safeguards are gradually weakened. These rollbacks have generally taken place where mandates were initially put in place with strict limits to ensure proportionality and legal certainty, but where the effectiveness of those mandates are later argued to be limited due to the safeguards themselves.