Systemic Dilemmas and Practical Responses of Digital Human Rights Theory in the Context of Smart Society: A Literature Review

Abstract

In the context of the accelerated development of digital technology represented by the Internet, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and the world's digitalization, the concept of "digital human rights" has emerged and attracted widespread attention in the academic community. However, up to now, there is no relatively unified concept of digital human rights in the academic circle, and there is a wide conflict over whether digital human rights can constitute the "fourth generation of human rights". In the context of digitalization, people's ways of living and exercising their rights are being reshaped or even replaced, and the protection of digital human rights has been put on the agenda. However, it is difficult to find a path to protect digital human rights when the academic community has not yet reached a consensus. These several issues affect each other and are interlinked. Different preferences for the definition of digital human rights will directly affect whether digital human rights are considered to be the fourth generation of human rights, and this will further affect the way we adopt to guarantee digital human rights, and whether it is effective and feasible. The rapid development of digitalization has built a digital space that is different from reality, which not only overturns the original rules and order, but also provides us with a new way of exercising rights, so digital human rights should be considered as the fourth generation of human rights. On this basis, I think we should first start to take some concrete initiatives, including the formulation of laws and regulations regulating the application of digital technology, the establishment of relief institutions