As digital technologies transform governance, communication, and public life, human rights frameworks must adapt to new challenges and opportunities. This book explores four fundamental questions: how digitalisation changes the application of human rights, how human rights law can respond to the challenges of digital technology, how freedom of expression applies online, and how vulnerable groups are affected by digitalisation. With contributions from leading scholars, the book combines legal analysis with insights from ethics, environmental education, and medical research. It examines critical topics such as AI regulation, platform accountability, privacy protections, and disinformation, offering an interdisciplinary and international perspective. By balancing different viewpoints, this book helps readers navigate the complexities of human rights in the digital age. It is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand and shape the evolving landscape of digital rights and governance. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Centred on fundamental questions, this book explores how digitalisation reshapes human rights, governance, and legal and policy frameworks.
Part I. Adapting Human Rights to a Digital World:
1. Introduction Tiina
Pajuste;
2. Is there a need for new digital human rights in AI governance?
Wolfgang Benedek;
3. Why and how the state should regulate the internet C. H.
Powell;
4. How to tame the 'Digital' shrew: constitutional rights going
online Violeta Besirevic;
5. How do we decide whether moving online makes a
difference? Johanas Baltrimas;
6. Some reflections on the non-coherence
theory of digital human rights Mart Susi;
7. Internet addiction as a human
rights issue Vygant Milait;
8. Just don´t get caught! Barbora Baurová;
Part II. Freedom of Expression in the Digital Domain: How should Freedom of
Expression be Applied in the Digital Environment? Tiina Pajuste;
9. Freedom
of expression and positive obligations of the state in social media Artrs
Kus;
10. The development of new media doctrines on freedom of expression:
how to defend democratic society and the rule of Llaw Jukka Viljanen and
Tomoe Watashiba;
11. Disinfodemic threats. real, false and fake news: a
contribution to fight disinformation without affecting the freedom of
expression Oscar Puccinelli;
12. Online freedom of expression: a new EU
imperialism? Philippe Jougleux; Part III. Challenges Posed by Digital
Technologies: How Should Human Rights Law Respond to the Challenges of
Digital Technologies? Tiina Pajuste;
13. The paradox of digitalisation in the
case of the covid apps what lessons can we learn from this strange
experience? Paula Veiga;
14. Aerial surveillance in the digital age: drone
related privacy concerns and the protection of other human rights Skirgail
alimien and Saulius Stonkus;
15. Online disinformation, microtargeting, and
freedom of expression: moving beyond human rights law? Birgit Schippers;
16.
Digital boom current issues from international investment to human rights
Cristina Elena Popa Tache, Ctlin-Silviu Sraru and Sergio de Souza Salles;
Part IV. Challenges Faced by Vulnerable Groups: What Additional Challenges do
Vulnerable Groups Face in the Digital Realm? Tiina Pajuste;
17. The digital
divide reinforcing vulnerabilities Tiina Pajuste;
18. How the EU safeguards
children's rights in the digital environment: an exploratory analysis of the
EU digital services act and the artificial intelligence act Eva Lievens and
Valerie Verdoodt;
19. Right to education in regional or minority languages:
invasions, Covid-19 pandemic and other developments Vesna Crni-Groti;
20.
Technological acceleration and the precarisation of work: reflections on
social justice, the right to life, and environmental education Raizza da
Costa Lopes, Samuel Lopes Pinheiro and Florent Pasquier.
Tiina Pajuste is Professor of International Law and Security Studies at Tallinn University and holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge and an LLM from Helsinki. She is a member of ESIL and COST networks, she has contributed to major international projects shaping policy and practice in human rights and peace studies.
