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Data-Centric Digital Rights (DCDR) is the advocacy of protecting citizens' Rights by transparently implementing the regulations that should protect them.
As core stakeholders, technologists play a critical role as the NextGen Rights Defenders and need to orient themselves through new design and implementation paradigms focused on protecting citizen's digital twins.
The DCDR Principles put forward by The IO Foundation are concepts that help them navigate the intricacies of applying Human and Digital Rights in digital infrastructures, products and services.
Establish an easy reference guidance for technologists
Establish the premises for the conceptualization of the DCDR Framework
Design a syllabus for the dissemination of the DCDR Framework
Promote the awareness and understanding of the DCDR Principles
Serve as the basis for the Sagan Oath
Incorporate the DCDR Principles in the Universal Declaration of Digital Rights
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Adopt designs that minimize grievances.
This DCDR principle represents the embodiment of the proactive planification, architecture and implementation of all necessary mechanisms, both in policy and technology, to avoid grievances to ever happen during the use of a product or a service, in turn minimizing the need for legal actions.
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In the context of Data Protection Laws, it implies the design of policies that protect Data Subjects and the implementation of such provisions in a transparent, trustworthy and safe manner where legal remedies, while defined, are only employed as a safety net.
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Leave no policy uncoded behind.
This DCDR Principle responds to the need for policies and tech to be designed and implemented as one: the former establishes what is to be respected and the latter ensures that the compliance is built in the infrastructure so that users are protected automatically and transparently.
On other words, any protection a citizen or its digital twins are subjected to under a specific jurisdiction should be transparently implemented inside the technology itself, by design.
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Do note that this is a concept that is evidently applicable beyond the domain of technology, which is highly
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Treat other people's data the same way you want to be treated.
The traditional understanding of data as separate entities from their users is anchored in past perceptions and the use of legacy technologies.
The reality is much different: The data representing users (and of which they should have control of consent) is intimately and inextricably linked to them; it models them, creating an accurate representation that loses all value should that contextualization ever be severed.
The direct consequence is that a user’s data IS the user itself.
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Do note that this understanding has crucial consequences as the same duties of care that apply by constitutional laws to citizens should equally apply to the data representing them.
In this sense, the necessary infrastructures that governments put in place to protect their citizens (hospitals, highways, the judiciary and so forth) should also be extended to the management and protection of their data with a national cloud system based on open standards and governed by a framework on Data-Centric Digital Rights.
