Should cybersecurity be a human right?

Current international human rights law includes many principles that apply to cybersecurity

Having access to the internet is increasingly considered to be an emerging human right. International organisations and national governments have begun to formally recognise its importance to freedom of speech, expression and information exchange. The next step to help ensure some measure of cyber peace online may be for cybersecurity to be recognised as a human right, too.

The United Nations has taken note of the crucial role of internet connectivity in “the struggle for human rights.” United Nations officials have decried the actions of governments cutting off internet