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Right To Liberty And Security (And Data Privacy?)
In today’s digital world, the right to liberty and security depends on your right to data privacy. If you can’t own your data, then you’re unable to exercise this right.
6 min readApr 20, 2021
It’s fair to say, that data privacy is your basic human right? It surely can’t be as important as freedom of speech or the right to life?
Every right isn’t created equal; however, they’re equally as important. Breaching some is life-threatening whilst others impact our core values as a society. Eroding some is a step in the direction of eroding others.
Take, for example, the regular ban of the internet to avoid people orchestrating a public protest. This happened in India, Myanmar and Belarus, the snowball effect of which led to regular breaches of other human rights.
Why tell you all this?
Because, in this week’s blog, I want to share three lessons on Data Privacy that are definitely worth pondering over:
#1 What do human rights mean? And how does data fit in?
#2 Why “Right To Own Your Data” is important?
