IMU Law Faculty Member Asst.Prof.Dr. Zeynep ARDIÇ presented her paper on Social Rights in the Digital World in the program titled “Transition from Classical Law to Digital Law” organized by the Turkish Economic, Political and Strategic Research Center (TESAM) in March 2022.
In her presentation, ARDIÇ touched upon the classification of human rights and explained how this classification has undergone a change in the digital world. Juniper is the first generation of personal, political participation, and justice rights; the second generation of economic, social, cultural rights; she stated that rights such as collective, minority, environment and peace rights are third generation rights. Then, in addition to this triple separation, fourth generation rights began to emerge as a result of the digital world; she stated that rights such as the right to demand the protection of personal data, the right to be forgotten, the protection of human dignity, physical and psychological well-being, prohibition of human cloning and superior race creation, ecosystem rights, and the right to the city can be included in this generation. Finally, ARDIÇ pointed out that these rights aim to protect human dignity, which may be damaged as a result of the dangers posed by science and technology.