Human Rights on the Internet
The article focuses on the evolution of human rights in the age of the Internet and expansion of digital technologies. Nowadays without the Internet it is difficult to carry out freedom of information that aggravates a problem of the Internet access as a fundamental human right. At the same time from the right to protection of personal data absolutely new rights are born such as the right to be forgotten and the right to digital death. The author aims to find out the human rights system dependence on technological development wherefore sets a task to identify changes in the existing rights and to explain the emergence of new human rights. The author also solves a problem of forecasting of further ways of digital rights development. In the digital era based on using of classical methods of a legal research and a comparative law method, the general tendencies of the human rights system development come to light. In the analysis of legislative texts and “soft law” acts methods of legal interpretation have helped to reveal problem points and nuances of approaches of different states and interstate organisations in this subject. Overall, the author gives the idea of recognition of the category of digital rights which at further development of technologies are capable to transform the social relations in a good manner. In addition, there are three stages of human rights development on the Internet: 1) the Internet considers as a tool, as an element of the basic human rights (the Internet is woven into human rights and its implementation/ violation); 2) the Internet as reflection of the basic human rights (two modes of human rights - offline and online); 3) the Internet as a basis of human rights transformation (new rights arise, the existing ones change). Having discovered in the system of human rights the long-standing conflict between public and private law, the author draws a conclusion that the system of human rights 3.0 risks to inherit outstanding issues of the classical law. The technology is neutral but its application and effect depend on real socio-political processes.