Comprehensive Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Digitalising European High North

Abstract

This chapter presents the interconnection between ever-advancing digitalisation, cybersecurity, human security and human rights in the European High North. While digitalisation brings forth multiple opportunities for individuals and communities in the area, it also generates concerns to them. Mainstream cybersecurity approaches neglect many of people’s everyday concerns. Therefore, the authors claim, a human security approach to cybersecurity provides a more inclusive understanding of both the enabling and constraining effects of digitalisation by deepening and widening the prevailing conceptualisations. They back their argument by highlighting the interconnection of human security and human rights. Such an approach places individuals and communities to the heart of cybersecurity and examines the changes that digitalisation generates in their everyday life.