Tag: human rights

Digitally Literate #208

Data Rights are Human Rights Digitally Lit #208 – 8/3/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to issue #208 of Digitally Literate. In this newsletter I distill the news of the week in technology into an easy-to-read resource. Thank you for reading. Please subscribe if you haven’t already. Rules for civil engagement:…

New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice

New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice edited by Molly K. Land (Cambridge Core)

Cambridge Core – Human Rights – New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice – edited by Molly K. Land

New technological innovations offer significant opportunities to promote and protect human rights. At the same time, they also pose undeniable risks. In some areas, they may even be changing what we mean by human rights. The fact that new technologies are often privately controlled raises further questions about accountability and transparency and the role of…