TELOS 85
The Internet, as part of our reality, has created innovative digital spaces where the rights and duties of citizens are seen in a new light. The central dossier of the 85th issue of Telos analyses the protection of fundamental rights, which encompasses different and complex aspects such as the financing of apparently free services on the Net, the transparency of electronic communications, new advertising techniques, intellectual property or computer crime and even social control.
Conflicting rights are the subject of plenty of controversy in this new context, since the prevalence of one over the other is yet to be determined. The classic debate between security and freedom, so present in many legislative policies since 9/11; the conflict between privacy/right of defence and criminal investigations or society’s right to protect itself from behaviours that it has decided to punish; or the delicate balance between the right to express ourselves –and even to display ourselves– and the right to repent and let our sins of youth be forgotten. These are old and new vital rights that are being accommodated and transformed on the Net.