We accept cookies as if they were freshly baked biscuits, without having the slightest idea of what ingredients they contain. We share photos of our children’s birthdays or family trips as if they were WhatsApp stickers, without knowing where they might end up. We use the same password for our bank account and our grocery app (spoiler: not a good idea). We check a website to see if it’s going to rain, only to give away our data like candy on Halloween.

We hit “like”, upload photos, and comment on posts… all on autopilot, as if we were robots with Wi-Fi. But do we really know what all of that involves? That is why today is a good day to discuss Digital Rights!

The digital world holds more risks than an action movie: information overload, insults, cyberbullying, data leaks, fake news… Practices that happen daily and threaten our digital rights.

The exhibition Today Is a Good Day to Discuss Digital Rights seeks to raise awareness about the rights and duties that citizens exercise and develop in the digital sphere. Moreover, the show invites us to keep debating and building a system of guarantees around the digital ecosystem — a kind of ethical guide that helps us understand what digital rights and duties are, what they imply, and the opportunities the technological environment offers citizens.

Everyone knows their rights in the analogue world, but not all citizens are aware that their actions in the digital sphere leave a trace and have consequences. Drawing on the Charter of Digital Rights (2021), Today Is a Good Day to Discuss Digital Rights explores seven areas of digital rights through humour and real-life examples: right to freedom of expression, to privacy, to identity, to explanation and human decision-making, to be forgotten and digital inheritance, to fair and just working conditions, and to the Internet.

Framed within the initiative of the Observatory of Digital Rights and curated by Fundación Telefónica together with the artistic collective Domestic Data Streamers — which presents six installations —, the exhibition features works by contemporary artists such as United Visual Artists, Eva & Franco Mattes, Paolo Cirio, Noemí Iglesias Barrios, Theresa Reiwer, Hasan Elahi, and Aram Bartholl, among others. Their works challenge visitors, help them understand, and encourage reflection on our actions as digital beings. A much-needed exhibition, it fuels the debate around digital rights and duties, and calls for a safe, responsible, critical, and creative use of technology. Because today is a good day to discuss Digital Rights.

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