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Surveillance and human rights


UN: Mass Surveillance is a Violation of Human Right to Privacy

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights acknowledged in the new report The right to privacy in the digital age that a bulk collection of ...

The Right to Privacy and National Security Surveillance

that can be considered a “least likely” case for the right to privacy, under national constitutional law and, even more so, under international human rights law ...

(PDF) " Human Rights in the Era of Surveillance: Balancing Security ...

This abstract explores the multifaceted challenges posed by the proliferation of surveillance technologies and their impact on human rights.

Regulating the Human Rights Abuses of the Private Surveillance ...

The Note focuses on three bodies of law which are ripe for reform: international human rights instruments, export controls and criminal sanctions, and civil ...

Explainer: Liberty vs. Mass Surveillance

After five years of hearings and judgments in UK courts, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) said in 2018 that RIPA violated the rights ...

Private Companies, Government Surveillance Software and Human ...

Whether we achieve a moratorium or not, in the long run we need a strategy to protect human rights defenders, journalists, activists, and ...

Surveillance and censorship:The impact of technologies on human ...

This report argues that the human rights-based approach can be helpful in focusing discussions about security on individuals rather than states. It provides an.

The Human Rights Challenges of Digital COVID-19 Surveillance

This lack of access to data can cause discrimination by presenting misleading and inaccurate health data for dissemination and analysis, further widening ...

Algorithmic state surveillance: Challenging the notion of agency in ...

This paper explores the extent to which current interpretations of the notion of agency, as traditionally perceived under human rights law, pose challenges to ...

BALANCING SECURITY AND FREEDOM: HUMAN RIGHTS AMID ...

The article examines the complex relationship between human rights and technological surveillance[2] highlighting key human rights implications, challenges and ...

Surveillance technology - ECNL Learning Center

When technology is used for counter-terrorism or in response to emergencies, the impact on human rights and civic space can arise from the rushed way in which ...

How CCTV tech contributes to human rights abuse in Iran - SOMO

CCTV surveillance technology used to oppress human rights proponents and commit severe human rights abuses in Iran.

“We need greater transparency and debate on the use of ...

was to hear the reasons for the accelerated growth in the use of surveillance technology and facial recognition and the consequent risks for human rights, based ...

Can human rights law bend mass surveillance?

This paper will examine the increasing gap between the right to privacy and contemporary surveillance schemes.

The Principles - Necessary and Proportionate

These principles can provide civil society groups, industry, States, and others with a framework to evaluate whether current or proposed surveillance laws and ...

"The Need for a Shared Responsibility Regime between State and ...

Similar to the reports of unpunished criminal misconduct and human rights abuses committed by contracted private military security companies in Afghanistan and ...

NSA Surveillance Since 9/11 and the Human Right to Privacy

Since shortly after 9/11, if not earlier, the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting massive amounts of data about American citizens and ...

Right to privacy and freedom from surveillance - Liberty Victoria

The right to privacy is the right to be free from undue surveillance by Government or anyone else. Surveillance by the State should only occur if absolutely ...

Surveillance Industry - Freedex

In the face of these challenges, the Special Rapporteur proposes a human rights based legal and policy framework for the regulation and accountability of, as ...

UN Rights Chief: 'Disturbing Lack of Transparency' for Digital Mass ...

The top United Nations human rights official today warned of a “disturbing” lack of transparency in governmental digital surveillance policies and ...