Civil Liability In Contemporary Society: New Challenges In Digital Relations

Abstract

The digitalization of social and economic relations has shifted a substantial share of private interactions to environments mediated by platforms, data, algorithms, and electronic contracts, creating new forms of harm and challenges for civil liability. This article analyzes these challenges, focusing on digital platforms, personal data protection, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence. A structured narrative review was conducted of scientific articles indexed in SciELO, published between 2000 and 2026 and selected for direct relevance to the legal problem investigated. The final corpus comprised sixteen studies with verifiable bibliographic identification and DOI or editorial record. The literature indicates that the digital environment does not eliminate the classic categories of conduct, damage, and causation, but requires their reinterpretation in light of algorithmic opacity, information asymmetry, large-scale data processing, and platform intermediation. Greater emphasis is also placed on duties of prevention, security, information, transparency, and governance. Contemporary civil liability should therefore combine traditional private-law foundations with standards of diligence suited to technological risks, preserving innovation without weakening the protection of personality, privacy, and trust.