Protection of Women from Violence and Domestic Violence in the Context of Digitalization

Nowadays, digital economics are rapidly changing the world around us, and artificial intelligence and big data are being actively used. These circumstances, while providing states and their citizens with new possibilities, call for modernization of legal and regulatory framework of various areas of public life. In this article, the authors analyze in what way digitalization affects human rights, and in particular how it affects women's rights to be protected from violence, including domestic violence. Different factors due to which women are more vulnerable to violence have been highlighted. These factors include deep-rooted patriarchal views, physiological features of women, strict legal protection of family and personal life inviolability, marginalization, and society underdevelopment and migration crisis. Since recently, the digitalization of society can be noted as one of these factors. It is stressed that the right to personal data protection is inseparable from the right to personal life protection. The article underlines the role of the Council of Europe, in particular the European Court for Human Rights, in the field of preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence, provides examples of the case law in part of violation of confidentiality of electronic mail and virtual harassment. In the conclusion, the authors summarize that in conditions of digitalization, there is an ongoing development of new human rights protection mechanisms on the international level. Nonetheless, the issues of women's private life protection and their right to be protected from all forms of violence require a more in-depth examination. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.