Jusletter IT

Digital Rights

  • Author: Ahti Saarenpää
  • Category of articles: Zum Generalthema Verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: EU
  • Field of law: Legal Theory
  • Collection: Conference proceedings IRIS 2020
  • DOI: 10.38023/dc3b26fb-0ea8-489b-864f-631b8824d95a
  • Citation: Ahti Saarenpää, Digital Rights , in: Jusletter IT 28. Februar 2020
We live in a digital network society, because the «information society», once such a popular concept, no longer serves our communicative needs. When we talk about digitalization, we are quick to present numbers but must also answer the question of whether we need renewed or new legislation to address the developments under way. Recent years have seen the emergence of the concept of digital rights that would seemingly form a special branch of jurisdiction. Discussion of the issue has intensified in the last few years as greater consideration has been given to our constitutional rights. In this article I examine the question of whether we in fact need special constitutional digital rights and what such rights might be. The author participated in the implementation of the Personal Data Directive and functioned as the vice chair of the Finnish Data Protection Board. The work of the Board was discontinued following the coming into force of the GDPR. This article is based in part on the author’s introductory article to the FIADI Manual of Legal Informatics, published in 2019.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 1. Technology and law
  • 2. The concept of a digital right
  • 3. Structure of our rights
  • 4. Conclusion
  • 5. References

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