Towards an International Framework for Digital Integrity

🌐 Towards an International Framework for Digital Integrity

A call for honesty and accountability in online relationships

In a world where human connection increasingly begins online, there is still no international framework protecting individuals from identity deception and emotional or financial harm.

Existing instruments — the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime (2001) and the EU Digital Services Act (2022) — are important, but insufficient.

The new International Recommendation on Digital Integrity and Platform Responsibility argues that:

privacy remains a right, but honesty is a duty;

dating and social platforms must verify users and be held accountable when negligence leads to harm;

states should cooperate to ensure cross-border justice and compensation for victims of digital relationship fraud.

> “In the house of digital connection, every platform is a host.

Privacy is a right — but responsibility is the roof that keeps us safe.”

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A proposal for lawmakers, platforms, and citizens to give the digital age its long-overdue moral and legal compass.