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ITU: Maintainting trust in digital connected society

18 May 2015

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"The development of the global digital connected society requires trust and security, based on sound regulation of the use of personal data. However, this is hampered by conceptual differences between states as concerns privacy in a narrow sense and data protection in a broad sense, and by different views on the application of the basic norms to non-nationals and to people outside a state’s territory (the issue of universality of human rights).

The answer can only be found in global acceptance of a broad human rights-based concept of data protection that states must apply to “everyone” affected by their actions, irrespective of nationality or legal status or the place where they live. The global digital connected society can only develop in and between states that accept this fundamental principle."

See the full article: Maintainting trust in digital connected society (pdf). This paper was prepared by Douwe Korff, Emeritus Professor of International Law, London Metropolitan University, Associate, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

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