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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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 Human Rights Council
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 HRC in 2020 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; Discrimination and Equality; SDGs and Digital Divide
Human Rights Council
Statistics and data collection under Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Report presented to the 49th session of the Human Rights Council providing an overview of State obligations under article 31 of Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to collect and maintain data for the purpose of developing evidence-based policies aimed at realizing the rights set out in the Convention.
2021
Privacy, Data, and Surveillance
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
Protecting against gender-based privacy infringements
Report presented to the 43rd session of the HRC in 2020 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, surveillance, data; Discrimination and equality, SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Impact of migration on migrant women and girls
Report presented to 41st session of the HRC in 2019 on the impact of migration on migrant women and girls from a gender perspective in which the Special Rapporteur discusses, among other things, the need for information firewalls between the immigration authorities and public services so that migrant women and girls can exercise their human rights without the fear of being deported
2019