{"id":27532,"date":"2026-05-27T06:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/?p=27532"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:16:46","slug":"choices-in-the-age-of-data-freedom-or-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/no-53\/choices-in-the-age-of-data-freedom-or-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Choices in the Age of Data: Freedom or Control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Estonia\u2019s digital state faces a core dilemma: how to use data for better services, healthcare and security without undermining privacy, accountability and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion highlights weak oversight, unclear responsibility, risks of surveillance and data abuse, and calls for stronger public debate, citizen control, proportionality, and a rule-of-law approach to data governance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27525\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27525\" src=\"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vestlusring.jpg\" alt=\"Riigikogu Toimetised Panel Discussion\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vestlusring.jpg 840w, https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vestlusring-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vestlusring-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vestlusring-75x50.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riigikogu Toimetised Panel Discussion. Photo: Erik Peinar<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia\u2019s digital state faces a core dilemma: how to use data for better services, healthcare and security without undermining privacy, accountability and freedom. The discussion highlights weak oversight, unclear responsibility, risks of surveillance and data abuse, and calls for stronger public debate, citizen control, proportionality, and a rule-of-law approach to data governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"class_list":["post-27532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-53","topic-rito-conversation-circle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27534,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27532\/revisions\/27534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}