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
General Assembly
Contemporary challenges to freedom of expression
Report presented to the 71st session of the UN General Assembly in 2016 on the contemporary challenges to freedom of expression addressing, among other things, mass and targeted surveillance and internet shutdowns (
2016
Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Big Data and Open Data
Report presented to the 71st session of the UNGA in 2016 outlining the mandate's priorities and activities, namely Thematic Action Streams (TAS) on Big Data and Open Data; Security and Surveillance; Health Data; Personal data processed by corporations; and A better understanding of Privacy
2016
Privacy, surveillance, data
General Assembly
Protection of sources of information and whistleblowers; Civic space and content governance;
Report presented to the 70th session of the UN General Assembly in 2015 on the protection of sources of information and whistleblowers, including in relation to surveillance and digital tools such as encryption and anonymizing programs to promote their protection, along with submissions by States and civil society on the topic. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/FreedomOpinion/Pages/ProtectionOfSources.aspx
2015
Privacy, surveillance, data; Civic space and content governance; Business and private sector
Human Rights Council
Freedom of expression, State regulation, and the private sector in the digital age
Report presented to 32nd session of the HRC in 2016 on the freedom of expression, State regulation, and the private sector in the digital age addressing, among other things, content regulation, internet shutdowns, net neutrality, and surveillance as well as digital security, along with submissions by States and civil society on the topic. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/FreedomOpinion/Pages/Privatesectorinthedigitalage.aspx
2016
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, Report presented to the 38th session of the HRC in 2018 in follow up to the Rapporteur?s prior report to the HRC in 2015 (A/HRC/29/32) on the use of encryption and anonymity to exercise the rights to freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age, examining new trends and issues since the initial report
2015
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
2015