Dominique de Villepin: Enshrining a declaration of cognitive rights in the preamble of the Constitution
Proposal put forward by Dominique de Villepin on February 10, 2026. Topic: Rights, Freedoms and Disinformation. The observatory also publishes quotes from 10 other public figures on this topic.
I want France to be able to show exemplarity and to enshrine, in the preamble of its constitution, as some Latin American countries have considered doing, without succeeding, a declaration of inalienable cognitive rights
Original quote (French)
Je souhaite que la France puisse faire preuve d’exemplarité et inscrire, dans le préambule de sa constitution, comme certains pays d’ Amérique latine ont envisagé de le faire, sans aboutir, une déclaration des droits cognitifs inaliénablesSource: lafrancehumaniste.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Antoine Mikolajczak: Require digital platforms to prove the absence of addictive mechanisms before any launch
- Bruno Retailleau: Ban any administrative refusal based solely on the output of an automated system
- Emmanuel Maurel: Regulating, or even banning, addictive social media algorithms
- Gabriel Attal: Require transparency of social media algorithms to allow researchers to study them
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Strengthening the CNIL's resources to ensure the application of the GDPR's security requirements
- Juan Branco: Impose transparency of social network algorithms
- Marine Tondelier: Adopt European legislation (AI Act II) establishing a right to opt out of AI in software
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Ban biases and filters introduced into AI by service providers
- Olivier Becht: Create a constitutional High Authority for transparency and privacy, formed by merging the CNIL, the HATVP and the CADA
- Raphaël Glucksmann: Imposing Rules by Design Against Addictive Social Media Algorithms
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