With the rapid development of the Internet and computer technologies, issues related to information security, the right of people to privacy and the legal norms that regulate this sphere are becoming more urgent. The training "Likbez on Digital Freedoms", which was held in Viciebsk, was dedicated to these problems.

The event was organized by the Digital Constraints Laboratory of the Belarusian human rights organization Human Constanta and targeted journalists, human rights activists, bloggers and activists who use modern technologies in their professional activities and for which the protection of personal data is extremely relevant. Experts from Minsk Alexey Kozlyuk and Andrei Sushko made speeches in the atmosphere of the underground club "Cherdachok".

Many were interested in learning how the transformation in the field of human rights is taking place in today's rapidly changing world. With the development of technologies, new challenges also arise, and what was recently irrelevant has come to the fore, and therefore to enter the sphere of human rights. For example, many human rights defenders have already begun to allocate the right of access to the Internet as a separate human right, which must be guaranteed by the state to every citizen. The draft law on this is being developed, for example, in Georgia.

During the event, topics such as measures of permissible censorship on the Internet and restrictions on Internet access, cybersecurity, hacker attacks, Internet infrastructure, the interaction of the state and business in the field of digital technologies, the right to privacy of users and possible tracking of them by providers were also discussed. The participants of the training entered into discussions with interest and shared their opinions.

A separate topic of the training was the sphere, which is still little known in the society, such as "e-government of Belarus and access to information of state bodies on the Internet". Optimizing the costs of the state budget and simplifying the procedures for providing information and services, the authorities are increasingly "leaving" the Internet. Of course, Belarus is still far from the developed countries of Europe. And, for example, in Estonia, for a long time already citizens have the opportunity to register business without leaving home, or to vote in various elections through the World Wide Web. In connection with the growing development of such services, there is a danger of the appearance of such a phenomenon as "digital discrimination" (a situation where people who do not have sufficient knowledge in the field of digital technologies cannot use some of the services of the modern world). And this is also a problem that must be taken into account, expanding the scope of electronic services.

Vladimir Belyavski