Italy: Human rights are so old hat. The future's in internet rights Access to the internet is a fundamental right of all persons. So says a new Italian Declaration of Internet Rights, which incorporates a 14-point manifesto drawn up by a parliamentary committee following a public consultation. Although not legally enforceable, many of the articles of the declaration (PDF) directly relate to …
if only there were such a thing as a manifest right.
All rights are illusory, temporary, and only applicable in as far as relevant local authorities choose to grant them. Even the much-lauded Human Rights, in its various incarnations, is useful only as a stick to beat authorities with when the authority has an appeal mode which allows it (and indeed is widely used to trump local legislation).
Why this internet 'right' should be any different is hard to see. Better to say, perhaps, that it is an internet 'opportunity'?
What? No ownership rights of data created by a person or about a person? If Italy enforced a persons natural right to data they create as Italy enforces the ownership of data created by companies I might think they were serious or on to something. Otherwise it looks like another case of politicians wasting time and avoiding real work or change.
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