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Surveillance and human rights


Spyware and surveillance: Threats to privacy and human rights ...

GENEVA (16 September 2022) – People's right to privacy is coming under ever greater pressure from the use of modern networked digital ...

Demand an end to the targeted surveillance of Human Rights ...

Digital attacks against human rights defenders, journalists and civil society are on the rise. Their digital devices are hacked they can be spied on, silenced, ...

SURVEILLANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

ensure their surveillance activities comply with international human rights law. The International. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), in its ...

Surveillance and Human Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation

These 13 Principles articulate how international human rights law should be applied to government surveillance.

Chilling Effects of Surveillance and Human Rights - Oxford Academic

Drawing on empirical research in Zimbabwe and Uganda it highlights how State surveillance has chilled behaviour, with significant implications for rights.

Surveillance and human rights :

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.

Analyzing the Human Rights Impact of Increased Digital Public ...

Under international human rights law, states are required to have robust public health surveillance measures in order to safeguard the rights to life and health ...

Mass Surveillance | Privacy International

Mass surveillance can subject a population or significant component thereof to indiscriminate monitoring, involving a systematic interference with people's ...

Surveillance Giants - Amnesty International

The rights to privacy, freedom of expression and non-discrimination are being harmed for the sake of company profit margins. That's why Amnesty International is ...

Guiding Principles on Government Use of Surveillance Technologies

Governments should not use surveillance technologies in a manner that violates human rights or undermines fundamental freedoms. Governments should implement ...

Joint Statement on the Heightened Risks Associated with ...

Responsible government use of surveillance technologies should aim to improve safety and security while respecting human rights and the rule of law.

Surveillance and Digital Rights - INCLO

Surveillance is a constant threat to our rights to privacy, personal data protection, freedom of expression, association and assembly, and non-discrimination.

Guiding Principles on Government Use of Surveillance Technologies

The Guiding Principles are intended to prevent the misuse of surveillance technologies by governments to enable human rights abuses in three ...

Regulation essential to curb AI for surveillance, disinformation: rights ...

The UN says it's concerned about the potential misuse of surveillance technology to illegally undermine people's human rights. Facebook ...

Digital surveillance's threat to human rights

The landscape for potential human rights abuses by digital surveillance is changing as the methods used grow ever more powerful.

OHCHR and privacy in the digital age

OHCHR has organized expert consultations and published reports to explore the challenges that the right to privacy and other human rights face in the digital ...

Technology is Enabling Surveillance, Inequality During the Pandemic

Elsewhere, the specter of mass surveillance sparked robust discussions about mitigating the most serious human rights risks of digital ...

Analyzing the Human Rights Impact of Increased Digital Public ...

Under international human rights law, states are required to have robust public health surveillance measures in order to safeguard the rights to ...

Navigating the surveillance technology ecosystem: A human rights ...

This guide seeks to assist investors of all sizes, types, and geographies to navigate the surveillance technology ecosystem and strengthen their human rights ...

Terrorism, surveillance and human rights - International Federation ...

To fight terrorism, and more broadly in the name of security, many laws that attack freedom of expression and the right to a private life have been adopted.


Search and Surveillance Act 2012

New Zealand's Search and Surveillance Act 2012 received Royal Assent on 5 April 2012, after being introduced in 2009. The three-year gap between the introduction of the Bill into Parliament and assent indicates the extent of the debates that occurred over the proposed extension of search and surveillance powers held by the State.

United Nations Human Rights Committee

Human rights group

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

International human rights instruments

International human rights instruments are the treaties and other international texts that serve as legal sources for international human rights law and the protection of human rights in general.