The Government of Spain has adopted the Digital Rights Charter which, without being normative, provides a framework for guaranteeing citizenship rights in the new digital reality and aims to recognize the challenges posed by the adaptation of current rights to the virtual and digital environment.

The text contains a set of principles and rights to guide future policy projects and the development of public policies in a way that ensures the protection of individual and collective rights in the new digital scenarios. It therefore sets out the principles on which to assert the safeguarding of fundamental rights on the digital stage.

The objective of the Charter is descriptive, prospective and assertive. Descriptive of digital contexts and scenarios that give rise to new conflicts and situations that must be solved; prospective by anticipating future scenarios that can already be predicted; and assertive because it revalidates and legitimizes the principles, techniques and policies that should be applied in present and future digital environments and spaces.

The Digital Rights Charter also aims to strengthen citizens' rights, to create certainty for society in the new digital reality and to increase people's confidence in the changes and disruptions brought about by new technologies.

With the adoption of the Charter, Spain complies with one of the milestones contained in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan for the second semester of 2021. The Charter is also one of the ten objectives set out in the España Digital 2025 agenda.

This Charter seeks to update existing and recognized rights in texts such as the Declaration of Human Rights or the Spanish Constitution, and to adapt them to the new circumstances of the digital reality.

The development of the Digital Rights Charter has followed a participatory process, with contributions from experts in the field and rights advocacy associations, as well as from citizens, together with the contribution of the private sector, service providers, and the public sector that is competent.

In particular, the Expert Group on Digital Rights was set up as milestones, or two public consultations were held, of which more than 250 contributions were received.