We investigated how to extend deontic logic with epistemic and action notions in order to reason about epistemic rights as normative positions, that is reasoning about human or artificial agents’ deontic attitudes toward epistemic states and the involved agents’ normative relations (which are often referred to as the Hohfeldian conceptions). 

We meet these types of rights in different moral or legal relations in our life: the expectant parents’ right to know whether the fetus would be a healthy child, the patient’s right to be informed about the potential treatments but also his right to know the test results, one’s right to know whether the partner committed adultery, the consumers’ right to not be misled by advertisements. 

The right to privacy is central not only in our everyday, but also in our online world. We consider the citizens’ right to know whether the government is up to something illegal as the basis for democracy, the arrested people’s right to know their rights as the basis of access to justice, and the freedom of thought and belief as one of our most fundamental and intimate, unalienable human rights. In this project, we developed various logical frameworks to thoroughly analyze, understand and reason about these rights and hence contribute to the discussion of control and governance of intelligent (autonomous) systems.