Privacy, Surveillance, Data
Privacy, Surveillance, Data
What does the right to privacy mean in the digital age? The digital age challenges traditional notions of privacy. Digital technologies enhance the capacity of States, companies and individuals to conduct surveillance, interception and data collection. What is the human rights framework applicable to the development, use, and sale of surveillance technologies? What are the human rights standards that should regulate data collection, storage and use? And what are the human rights safeguards that need to be put in place?
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Privacy, Data, and Surveillance; Security - Counter-Terrorism;
Business - Private Sector
Working Group
Military and security products and services in cyberspace and their human rights impacts
Report of the Working group on the human rights impacts of mercenaries, mercenary-related actors and private military and security companies engaging in cyberactivities
2021
Privacy, Data, and Surveillance; Artificial Intelligence; Discrimination and equality;
Business - Private Sector
Special Rapporteurs
Report on the Freedom of Thought
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed
2021
Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Elements that are needed to set a rights-based global agenda
Report presented to the 44th session of the Human Rights Council on the elements that are needed to set a rights-based global agenda for advancing the right to mental health, discussing digital surveillance
2020
Privacy, Data, and Surveillance
Special Rapporteurs
Privacy and COVID19
Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Joseph A. Cannataci, on the impact of measures to combat COVID-19 on data protection, technology and surveillance
2021
Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Protecting against gender-based privacy infringements
Report presented to the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council on protecting against gender-based privacy infringements, noting that privacy infringements happen in multiple, interrelated and recurring forms facilitated by digital technologies, in both private and public settings across physical and national boundaries. Online privacy infringements, reflect and extend offline privacy infringements. Digital technologies amplify their scope and intensify their impact
2020
Privacy, Data, and Surveillance
Special Rapporteurs
Situation of human rights defenders online
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, on priorities and working methods
2020
Artificial Intelligence; Privacy, Data, and Surveillance; Discrimination and Equality
Human Rights Council
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) on the enjoyment of the right to privacy and associated rights
Report the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights presented to the 48th session of the Human Rights Council
2021
Privacy, Data, and Surveillance;
Business - Private Sector
Working Group
Border security technologies and monitoring services, including the use of biometric data
Impact of the use of private military and security services in immigration and border management on the protection of
the rights of all migrants: Report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
2020
Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Persisting impunity for human rights violations
Report presented to the 74th session of the UNGA on the persisting impunity for human rights violations committed against human rights defenders and the challenges that exist in combating it, noting that digital attacks require complex investigations and most States have the resources to acquire technology and powerful software that can be used in digital attacks on human rights defenders and that the existence of legislation restricting access to public information and the lack of independent accountability mechanisms makes it impossible to determine how the acquired technology is being used, let alone establishing responsibility, and recommending that States should establish independent to monitor and investigate the use of digital technologies for surveillance, to ensure that any such use is consistent with the principles of legality, necessity and legitimacy of objectives and that companies that sell surveillance technology should refrain from doing so if there are indications that it is being used in ways that violate human rights
2019