FROM MAGNA CARTA TO METADATA: A JOURNEY THROUGH MODERN HUMAN RIGHTS

The comprehensive development of human rights with one starting point in the Magna Carta of 1215 and one ending up at the need to solve challenges as digital surveillance, climate justice and artificial intelligence is traced in this paper. It analyses key historical moments, philosophical principles and the world law, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This paper examines the radical shift of rights that started as the protection of aristocracy and aristocracy-related classes to rights of the universal individual and, more recently, of the necessity of algorithmic accountability and digital rights to privacy. It ends up with the argument that human rights are dynamic and therefore legal systems require constant changes to deal with the changing technologies and society.