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, 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
Privacy, surveillance, data; Security � Counter-Terrorism
Special Rapporteurs
Mass digital surveillance for counter-terrorism purposes
Report presented to the 34th session of the HRC in 2017 on the developments that have taken place in connection with the principal issues addressed in each of his previous thematic reports, including on the use of remotely piloted aircraft in extraterritorial lethal counter-terrorism operations and mass digital surveillance for counter-terrorism purposes
2017
Civic space and content governance ; Privacy, surveillance, data
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
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