What's Digital Rights actually is?
What's Digital Rights actually is?
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Digital Rights are human rights and legal rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, and telecommunications networks.
This concept is particularly related to the protection and realization of existing rights, such as the right to privacy and freedom of expression, in the context of digital technologies, especially the Internet. The laws of several countries recognize a right to Internet access
TYPES OF DIGITAL RIGHTS
TYPES OF DIGITAL RIGHTS
Although each country is developing its own Digital Rights Charter, there are some general guidelines that all countries follow:
Universal and equal access =
People should be able to access the Internet regardless of their income, their geographical location or their disabilities. The UN Human Rights Council recognises in a report that the right of access is essential to freedom of opinion.
Freedom of expression, information and communication =
These basic human rights are threatened on the Internet when governments block websites or social networks, which is a violation of the right to communication and free association, or censor content, which is contrary to freedom of expression and information.
Privacy and data protection =
Citizens must have control over who stores their personal data and be able to delete them at any time. The right to privacy is threatened on the Internet by the theft of credentials, the appropriation of personal data and their use for financial gain, etc.
Right to anonymity =
The right to anonymity and encryption of communications is particularly threatened in those countries that prohibit the sending of encrypted messages and communications, which is necessary for reliable and secure transactions on the Internet.
Right to be forgotten =
This is the right to have a person's private information removed from Internet searches, databases and directories. It is currently recognised by the EU in the GDPR as a 'right to delete' and it has already been invoked in other countries such as Argentina, the US, South Korea and India.
Protection of minors =
Governments must not only ensure the protection of children on the Internet, as in the case of child pornography, but also ensure that companies provide the means to guarantee safe access without infringing the rights of children.
Intellectual property =
Authors must be guaranteed recognition of their artistic or literary work and the right to be remunerated for its use, while guaranteeing free access to works that are already in the public domain.
Digital Rights Competencies
Digital Rights Competencies
Here are some of the skill that you need to understand and able to do when you go surving in digital world
Privacy Management
Privacy Management
The ability to handle with discretion all personal information shared online to protect one's and others' privacy.
Knowledge
Individuals understand privacy as a human right, what personal information is, and how it can be used, stored, processed, and shared in digital platforms, along with strategies and tools that help them keep their personal information private and secure.
Skills
Individuals are able to develop behavioral and technical strategies to limit privacy violations, and are able to make good decisions around creating and sharing information and content of their own as well as that of others'.
Attitudes / Values
Individuals show respect for their own and other's privacy and personal information, treating these as valuable and personal assets worth protecting.
Intellectual Property Rights Management
The ability to understand and manage intellectual property rights (e.g., copyrights, trademarks, and patents) when using and creating content and technology.
Knowledge
Individuals understand legislation and rights around ownership and remixing of online content (e.g., digital rights management technologies, plagiarism, copyright, fair use, licensing), and are able to distinguish between creative use and appropriation of others' work.
Skills
Individuals distinguish between digital creations that can be legally downloaded and that which must be paid for. They utilize strategies (such as trademarks, creative commons, and copyrights) for protecting their own and others' digital creations-in addition to content created collaboratively-through a variety of tools and legislation. Moreover, they track and manage changes in their digital creations in order to protect their own/organizational assets from unauthorized change, use, and deviation.
Attitudes / Values
Individuals build trust, exhibit responsibility, self respect, and respect for others by protecting their own digital creations and crediting others' creations when appropriate.
Participatory Rights
Management
The ability to understand and exercise one's powers and right to online participation (e.g., their rights to personal data protection, freedom of expression, or to be forgotten).
Knowledge
Individuals understand their rights as digital citizens and consumers (e.g., right to personal data protection, right to freedom of expression, or to be forgotten), and why opportunities for online participation are unevenly distributed across social groups (e.g., due to differences in socioeconomic status, (dis)ability, physical location).
Skills
Individuals become equipped to develop cognitive and meta-cognitive skills for synthesizing existing legislation with their own practices to ensure that digital rights are upheld and respected online; they also develop complex system-level thinking for upholding individual and community rights to online participation as they monitor and improve systems and hold contradictory ideas and ideals in tension.
Attitudes / Values
Individuals exhibit proactive thinking, grounded in respect for democratic ideals, the rule of law, human rights. They take responsibility for managing technology to promote the public good of society and the environment.
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