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Trial lecture - time and place
Adjudication committee
- Professor Gentian Zyberi, University of Oslo (leader)
- Professor Oreste Pollicino, Università Bocconi (1. opponennt)
- Professor Gloria Gonzalez Fuster, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2. opponent)
Chair of defence
Head of Department Margrethe Buskerud Christoffersen
Supervisors
- Professor Lee Bygrave
- Professor Inger Marie Sunde
Summary
This doctoral thesis investigates cybersecurity from a fundamental rights perspective. The main goal of the thesis is to cast light on whether cybersecurity is emerging as a new fundamental right, as well as on the legal implications that this would entail.
Despite the undeniable benefits of the ongoing digital transformation, the malicious use of the technologies that enable such a transformation can have significant and far-reaching negative consequences for individuals and society as a whole. In practice, this has brought cybersecurity to the forefront, and has made it essential for a wide range of human activities.
The increased centrality of cybersecurity has led a number of academics, human rights activists and policy makers to advance arguments for adding a new right to cybersecurity to the existing catalogue of fundamental rights. The thesis shows how these arguments have begun to gain traction in several legal systems and how cybersecurity is no longer a mere technical matter but a fundamental normative issue.
While the exact legal consequences that would derive from a full recognition of a fundamental right to cybersecurity may vary across legal systems, the thesis argues that such consequences may be significant for public actors, corporations and individuals.