Human rights in the digital world
Human rights in the digital world
In the digital world the basic assumptions about human rights need to be reclaimed. As has been seen, human rights apply to individuals and are afforded by their state. These rights are, however, analogue-world-specific, the culmination of a process with its roots deep in human history—crucially, within an environment of scarcity (remembering that information in the analogue world is finite). Both assumptions (that human rights apply to individuals and are afforded by their state) are being gravely challenged today in the digital world. Even if these assumptions also remain in the digital world (notwithstanding that information in the digital world is also infinite), it is far from certain that the list of human rights in the analogue world will also work in the digital. In other words, simply adding the word ‘digital’ next to any human right acknowledged today will most likely not work.
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