The image of human rights in e-­state

Abstract

The article applies the non­-coherence theory of digital human rights to e­-statehood and identifies five caveats. The emerging image is characterized by the absence of human rights rhetoric from e-­state goals and strategy, absence of conclu­ sive justification of e-­state success in social context, relatively lower protection of human rights through e­state solutions in comparison with solutions in the private digital domain, dichotomy of the meaning of privacy in the digital domain, and the theoretical threat of e­state transforming into a police-­state. The article argues that since human rights are not generic to e­state, their inclusion into the rhetoric about e-­state is the result of public pressure. The author proposes the thesis about negative correlation between the e-­state and human rights: the expansion of e-­state solutions in a given society leads to decrease in fundamental rights protection.