Human rights abuses based on use of new technologies happen everywhere in the world. Almost all governments try to acquire more control on people by use of modern technologies (e.g. facial recognition ...

Powerful companies use their resources and products to profile and judge us, to decide what we see, what we may access, what we may do, and if and how we may participate. They interfere with our ...

The aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States (US) sparked widespread debate and concern that data from period tracking apps could be use to criminalise those seeking abortion ...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is developing standards for decent work in the platform economy. Gig workers are exposed to a range of harms because of the precarious nature of their work ...

Industry is gaining insights into and intelligence on our lives that were previously possessed by powerful Intelligence Agencies, and tomorrow their potential may exceed them. In the future, industry ...

Until recent the international human right to privacy was largely unaddressed. We led initiatives to establish law on the right to privacy through UN special procedures and human rights processes, and ...

As computing becomes embedded everywhere, privacy, security and safety issues converge. In the future, our infrastructure will be insecure and unsafe due to insecure devices and components that are ...

Industry is gaining insights into and intelligence on our lives that were previously possessed by powerful Intelligence Agencies, and tomorrow their potential may exceed them. In the future, industry ...

On 21 February 2025, Privacy International, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Carter Center convened an expert roundtable to ...

People don’t know or control what data is on devices and how it is used by others, and how this can be used against them. In the future, individuals’ data held on technologies and devices can be ...

The data that is observed, derived or predicted from our behaviour is increasingly used to automatically rank, score, and evaluate people. These derived or inferred data are increasingly used to make ...

Industry is gaining insights into and intelligence on our lives that were previously possessed by powerful Intelligence Agencies, and tomorrow their potential may exceed them. In the future, industry ...