No. 21 (2024): Democracy and Rights in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities

In recent decades, technological advances have profoundly transformed our societies, affecting all aspects of daily life and posing challenges for institutions. Technological disruption has reconfigured public life, especially in terms of elections and political campaigns, exemplified by the Cambridge Analytica case. Although these technologies present risks, such as the misuse of personal data, they also offer significant opportunities, as witnessed by the use of blockchain in democratic processes, for example, in Zug, Switzerland. This shift raises debates about “technosolutionism” and the need to balance technological innovation with ethical and regulatory considerations, especially in the area of ​​public law and the protection of emerging digital rights.