Data commons: Privacy and cybersecurity are fundamental human rights

Abstract

Google knows more about us than we remember: it knows our daily habits and paths, it knows with whom, when and for how long we have been there; Zoom knows who we work with, Facebook puts our preferences up for auction; Twitter bots and trolls influence our views. Misinformation memes also crowd social media and pollute the scientific debate. If we do not learn to protect personal behaviors turned into digital data, we will be exposed to an uncontrollable power, that of commercial persuasion, political manipulation and state surveillance.