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Day 3
Digital integrity of the human person, A new fundamental right Update 2024
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The right to respect for digital integrity is an emerging right to protect people's digital lives. This talk will introduce this new legal concept, its possible implications for data protection and how this concept is being introduced in the current legal framework. The talk will also be an update of the implementation work with the adoption of the right in the Constitution of Geneva voted with 94% approval rate on the 18th of June 2023. The right is also voted in November 2024 in Neuchatel, and a initiative has raised 10'000 signatures in Zurich.

Speaker: Alexis Roussel

Every human evolves today in multi-dimensional physical and digital environment. If each individual is to keep its individuality and autonomy in its choices, it must be protected and given effective tools to defend its own autonomy.

Recognizing that human life has been digitally extended must question ourselves on what makes us human today. Should personal data be considered as component of the person, rather than objects that can be owned by whoever collects that data? Should our digital integrity be protected?

If each human person already has a right to physical and mental integrity (Swiss Constitution article 10 al.2), shouldn’t it have a right to digital integrity?

Alexis Roussel has been co-authoring a book on the right to Digital Integrity. He is an advocate in digital public policies in Switzerland.