The declaration of the rights of internet
Milan , October 13, 2014 – 14:02
Internet is no longer the same. It is not, as in the early days, a vacant lot on which to germinate ideas, content, and business ideas. It is a space populated by 3 billion people with economic and social balances increasingly structured that rely primarily on the role of one who has become the filter for navigation. The door, even the doors to access the Net: Google, Facebook and Twitter but also dictate in good and in bad times and modes of access. Think of, sacrosanct, the decision to cancel the video of the beheading of James Foley or the principle that services are provided for free in exchange of personal data and the navigation to sell to advertisers. Decisions and mechanisms of private giants that, in fact, become law in an area without specific standards dedicated. And in the hours when Google is spreading the first data on the actual removals performed after the application of the right to be forgotten, Italy has made its proposal, joining a global debate that has in Marco Civil Brazilian’s first and most important position. At present 27 MEPs the Declaration of the Rights of the Internet Speaker of the House Laura Boldrini, which has strongly backed the creation of the Committee of Experts and MPs chaired by the jurist Stefano overspend. It came out 14 points from October 27th will be open to comments and suggestions on an online platform dedicated to 4 months.
“I believe that democratic participation is very important in this stage,” he told the Corriere della Sera Boldrini, “we need to bring people closer together and parliamentary institution cope with the crisis of participation and lack of love for politics.” Internet, according to the president, so it is the subject of the proposals is the preferred means to make them more effective. Pretty obvious the change in approach from last year, when at the top of the priority list of president there was the problem of hate online and the need to stem it, “There are negatives against minorities or women, and I have also experienced on my skin, but you’re talking about a tool too important to leave in the hands of the arrogant and the powerful. The citizen has rights which must be respected. ” The reference is in fact the dominant role assumed by the giants and their management of our data, as well as the abuse of individuals or groups. “Awareness is about using the best protection,” says Boldrini. And the paper is structured precisely for (groped to) throw and principles of all interactions, from the international recognition of the fundamental rights of every person online.
Access to the Internet is a right
The global dimension is crucial: the document has as its primary purpose to inspire any legislative action within the Parliament but, as he explains to overspend Corriere della Sera, “we want to insert ourselves into the debate that according to the Berkman Center sees 87 proposals around the world. We are already in touch with the people who wrote the Brazilian law and with Germany, France and the United Kingdom. On November 12, we will present the paper in Brussels. ” The road is long and the goal to which the jurist tip for 4 years, the inclusion of the right of access to the Internet in the Constitution, it is still such. Italy today is proposed as towing, at least in Europe, taking advantage of half of our national presidency and trying to pull the muzzle to the new Digital Single Market Commissioner Andrus Ansip. The right of access, so dear to overspend, is at the top of the list, the second point of the document: “Every person has an equal right to access the Internet on an equal footing with mode technologically appropriate and up to date remove all obstacles to economic and social “. We speak of “fundamental right” to not only access but also choice of operating systems, software, and applications. And he puts his finger on the “public interventions to overcome every form of digital divide.” Backbone of reasoning emphasizes the lawyer, is “the prevalence of the rights on economic logic.” Here, therefore, reiterates the importance of net neutrality also both fixed and mobile, “in reference to the production of innovation.” The possibility debated in the United States but also in Europe, to create a fast track for the delivery of content is therefore rejected in no uncertain terms. There is also to say that good intentions of this type have characterized all the debates on the subject, even those indirizzatisi then to the two speeds.
The use of the data must be transparent
The hot months for the fate of the Rules of the Old Continent are the ones up at the end of the year. Overspend states: “Network neutrality is the guarantee of maintaining the capacity for innovation and freedom expressed by the internet until today.” Large part dedicated to the protection and control of personal data. The information, according to the paper, should be collected and treated “with the actual informed consent of the person concerned”, “every person has the right to access their data, regardless of the person who holds or the place where they are stored, to ask for their integration, rectification, cancellation in the manner prescribed by law “and” the use of algorithms and probabilistic techniques (for the construction of identity, ed) must be brought to the attention of the persons concerned. ” Overspend summarizes asking “more transparency on the part of large companies on the mechanisms of tracking data” and go to the “right to anonymity ensures that the person to express their ideas avoiding censorship. Think of the dissidents. ” The boundary in this case is between the right and the need for action to suppress illegal activities or defamation, object – among other things – of a controversial bill introduced in the Senate that the removal of the articles online in 24 hours. Facebook Meanwhile, as we know, is pushing for us to enter with real first and last name.
include the right to information and right to be forgotten
It returns to the debated issue of the right to oblivion. Just at this time Google has made available the first data on 146 thousand requests for deletion of pages considered most important by its search results. In more than half of the cases, 58.2%, there was no effective removal. Italy, with its 11 thousand requests, we saw no say in 75.8% of cases. The paper reiterates the principle of forward questions of this type but also focuses on the “right to information”, which effectively excludes politicians and celebrities. Any application received can also be challenged before a judge, always in the name of the right of access to knowledge. This aspect is also particularly sensitive to the issue of protection of copyright: “We have not discussed for lack of time but we will do in the coming weeks. We must deepen the legal status of knowledge on the Net, “anticipates overspend. The border, which has recently also ventured NRA Commissioner Antonio Nicita, is what separates the fight against piracy supported (also) of the Regulations of the Guarantor and access to content. The paper will lay the foundation, to the legislature the task of unraveling the skein.
October 13, 2014 | 14:02
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