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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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
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
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue
2013
Privacy, surveillance, data
Human Rights Council
Implications of States' surveillance of communications on the exercise of the human rights; civic space and content governance;
Report presented to 23rd session of the HRC in 2013 on the implications of States surveillance of communications on the exercise of the human rights to privacy and to freedom of opinion and expression. As well as A/HRC/23/40/Corr.1), http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/23/40/Corr.1 including the surveillance of communications, data, and internet filtering and content regulation
2013