Alexis Roussel
Alexis Roussel is the co-author of the book "Our precious digital integrity" promoting a novel fundamental right to the digital integrity of the human being. He holds a Masters in Technology Public Law and has served as an E-Governance Specialist for the United Nations, and was the President of the Pirate Party of Switzerland – aimed at promoting a human-centric and distributed approach of a technological society. He is frequently in the Swiss media discussing privacy and digital rights issues.
Session
The right to respect for digital integrity is an emerging right to protect people's digital lives.
This talk will introduce this new legal concept, its possible implications for data protection and how this concept is being introduced in the current legal framework. The talk will also be an update of the implementation work with the adoption of the right in the Constitution of Geneva voted with 94% approval rate on the 18th of June 2023. The right is also voted in November 2024 in Neuchatel, and a initiative has raised 10'000 signatures in Zurich.