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 ...

Period tracking apps and the rollback of reproductive rights. The aftermath of the overturning of Roe v.Wade in the United States (US) sparked widespread debate and concern that data from period ...

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 Thursday, 12th June 2025, the General Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a resolution committed the ILO to having a second discussion on this issue in 2026 with a ...

The October 2024 report on Artificial Intelligence in education referenced this submission but also adopted our recommendation that companies providing AI systems to educational institutions “make ...

Individuals should have control over the data generated about their activities, conduct, devices, and interactions, and be able to determine who is gaining this intelligence and how it is to be used.

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 ...

The meeting brought together representatives from UN bodies, civil society, academia, and election oversight institutions. Participants agreed that while digital technologies can improve electoral ...

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 ...

As nearly every human interaction now generates some form of data, systems should be designed to limit the invasiveness of data analysis by all parties in the transaction and networking.