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Welcome to the United Nations Hub for Human Rights and Digital Technology. As our world becomes ever-more digital, there is a greater need for our rights to be respected both online and offline. The UN has been considering how our valuable human rights protections apply in the digital space. You can find the full scope of key texts, including standards, analysis, and recommendations emerging from the United Nations human rights mechanisms, on this site.
"Together, as we seek to recover from the pandemic, we must learn to better curtail harmful use of digital technology and to better unleash its power as a democratizing force and an enabler."
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL
ANTÓNIO GUTERRES
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Use the search bar below to find materials on specific issues. You may also explore different themes by clicking on the boxes below. New materials will be added regularly.
Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Governmental surveillance activities
Report presented to the 34th session of the HRC in 2017 on governmental surveillance activities from a national and international perspective, outlining approaches to a more privacyfriendly oversight of government surveillance
2017
Civic space and content governance
Special Rapporteurs
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye
2017
Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, Joe Cannataci, which includes an executive summary of activities undertaken during 2016-17 and an interim report on the work of the Big Data Open Data Taskforce established by the Special Rapporteur on Privacy.
2017
SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Impact of assistive and robotics technology
Report presented to the 36th session of the HRC in 2017 on the Special Rapporteur's country visit to Singapore from 21 to 29 September 2019 making findings on, among other things, assistive and robotics technology in relation to the human rights of older persons
2017