Consumers and digital environments as a structural vulnerability relationship

Abstract

This article highlights the need for legislation to protect human beings as such (and not only but most of all in their position as minors, elderly people, disabled people) is indispensable in a perspective of balanced development of technologies in all possible directions. Therefore, a new concept of vulnerability is asserted not related to physiological-cognitive deficits of human beings but to their very condition as humans operating in a digital environment.