Spain has produced an outline digital rights document which it hopes will be used in Europe and globally. The aim is to reinforce the protection of rights and freedoms of the citizens in a changing digital environment due to the disruption of technological advance.
Spanish secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, Carme Artigas says the Charter for Digital Rights works as a “prescriptive document, not regulatory, proposes a framework for the public authorities' action in a way that allows navigating in the current digital environment, taking advantage of all its potentialities and minimizing its risks.”
Artigas has highlighted the collaborative work developed: "The Charter is the result of an intense work of different actors, we have drawn the rights and freedoms that we want to debate, we make the first conclusions available to citizens now, already open for public consultation. We want this document has the highest consensus."
The secretary of State pointed out that "The digital transformation of Spain is vital for the economic recovery of our country; we must move towards a digital economy". Also added: "The Charter accomplishes several objectives: reinforce rights, generate certainties and guarantee the citizens security in the digital environment."
"This document aspires to turn into an ethical framework for digital rights that will become an international benchmark for the rest of the countries with a transversal, holistic and humanistic vision. A national project which leaves no one behind," emphasised Artigas.
Digital Future Society director, Cristina Colom, has pointed out the need to promote "a public-private collaboration in order to create new policies that address the digital future in a multidisciplinary and transversal way, but, above all, that it can be put into practice efficiently."
