Human rights group confronts abuses with data-driven evidence

Nov/Dec 2011 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Data Driven

Data-Driven Human Rights: Using Dual Loyalty Trainings to Promote the Care of Vulnerable Patients in Jail

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Glowa-Kollisch ◽  
Jasmine Graves ◽  
Nathaniel Dickey ◽  
Ross MacDonald ◽  
Zachary Rosner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Dual Loyalty ◽  
Vulnerable Patients

scholarly journals A14D

Federalism-E ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Mayowa Oluwasanmi
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
International Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Economic Dependency

In the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution is Artificial intelligence, better known as “AI.”  As a frontier technology, AI is implementing deep and far-reaching changes into the way we work, play and live. These tools present numerous opportunities in solving issues of international development. Yet in spite of its infallible potential,  the negative repercussions of AI driven change have become abundantly clear. These consequences will only be exacerbated in the Global South where there is a greater tendency for weak institutional capacity and governance. AI has the potential to threaten employment, human rights, democratic process and worsen economic dependency. The very nature of these tools--the ability to codify and reproduce patterns--must be met with responsible, ethical actors who ensure developmental goals will be met. Is AI4D the answer? This paper will illustrate the opportunities and risks of AI-driven development. I argue that technology can no longer be considered an inherent equalizer, and that the responsibility for fairness in the digital world must be championed by the international community. Finally, I will present possible steps policymakers can take to ensure true development in our data-driven future. 

scholarly journals Big Data in the workplace: Privacy Due Diligence as a human rights-based approach to employee privacy protection

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395172110130
Author(s):  
Isabel Ebert ◽  
Isabelle Wildhaber ◽  
Jeremias Adams-Prassl
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
Employee Privacy ◽  
Employee Monitoring ◽  
Data Surveillance ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
Technical Solutions

Data-driven technologies have come to pervade almost every aspect of business life, extending to employee monitoring and algorithmic management. How can employee privacy be protected in the age of datafication? This article surveys the potential and shortcomings of a number of legal and technical solutions to show the advantages of human rights-based approaches in addressing corporate responsibility to respect privacy and strengthen human agency. Based on this notion, we develop a process-oriented model of Privacy Due Diligence to complement existing frameworks for safeguarding employee privacy in an era of Big Data surveillance.

scholarly journals From ‘Capital and Ideology’ to ‘Democracy and Evidence’: a review of Thomas Piketty

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewan McGaughey
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Creative Capacity ◽  
Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology (2020) is a major, encyclopaedic and data-driven contribution to the effort of constructing a better human civilization. This review summarises the main argument: a positive thesis that in every society, ideology feeds laws and institutions that create inequality, and inequality then bolsters ideology; a normative thesis that we need a better ideology, including ‘participatory socialism’, to solve our biggest challenges. The review then complements and critiques three central issues in the argument, that (1) the true concentration of economic power, the votes in the economy, is even more extreme than inequality of wealth and income, (2) the legal construction of markets, through property, contract, corporate, or human rights law, can ‘pre-distribute’ income and wealth to a vast extent before tax, and (3) social justice means expanding (not merely correcting or re-distributing) everyone’s opportunity, creative capacity, and human potential, and helps everyone to develop their personality to the fullest. Social justice is an unparalleled force, and is still the best answer to far-right, authoritarian or other failed ideologies, which have escalated inequality and driven climate damage. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Piketty’s work could be to bring economics firmly back to the values in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (2020) Oeconomia.

COVID-19, International Human Rights Law and the State-Corporate Complex

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-213
Author(s):  
Jolyon Ford
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
The State ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human

Abstract Data-driven technologies (such as mobile phone-based tracing apps) have been at the forefront of public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we have also seen high-level expressions of concern about how state actions ostensibly in pursuit of public health goals have in fact greatly accelerated existing human rights concerns about newer technologies, especially increased state and corporate surveillance. This article explores issues at the nexus of COVID-19 public health responses, civil-political rights under international human rights law, and the responsible governance of data-driven technologies. In particular, it offers a framework to evaluate the human rights compatibility of tech-assisted COVID-related state measures. The articles also explore analogies between COVID-related measures and post-2001 counter-terrorism actions taken by states in the name of public security. It cautions against exceptional measures becoming hardwired in ways that may unreasonably impact on pre-COVID freedoms. The article argues that the blurring of state and corporate surveillance and data-gathering and the often symbiotic relationship between tech firms and governments (the ‘state-corporate complex’) complicate efforts to assert clear frames of responsibility.

Data-driven models of governance across borders: Datafication from the local to the global

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Payal Arora ◽  
Hallam Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Data Systems ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Universal Human Rights

This special issue looks closely at contemporary data systems in diverse global contexts and through this set of papers, highlights the struggles we face as we negotiate efficiency and innovation with universal human rights and social inclusion. The studies presented in these essays are situated in diverse models of policy-making, governance, and/or activism across borders. Attention to big data governance in western contexts has tended to highlight how data increases state and corporate surveillance of citizens, affecting rights to privacy. By moving beyond Euro-American borders — to places such as Africa, India, China, and Singapore — we show here how data regimes are motivated and understood on very different terms.

scholarly journals Encrypting human rights: The intertwining of resistant voices in the UK state surveillance debate

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395172098530
Author(s):  
Amy Stevens ◽  
James Allen-Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Topic Modelling ◽  
Legislative Reform ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
State Surveillance ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

The Snowden revelations in 2013 redrew the lines of debate surrounding surveillance, exposing the extent of state surveillance across multiple nations and triggering legislative reform in many. In the UK, this was in the form of the Investigatory Powers Act (2016). As a contribution to understanding resistance to expanding state surveillance activities, this article reveals the intertwining of diverse interests and voices which speak in opposition to UK state surveillance. Through a computational topic modelling-based mixed methods analysis of the submissions made to the draft Investigatory Powers Bill consultation, the article demonstrates the diversity and intersection of discourses within different actor groups, including civil society and the technology industry. We demonstrate that encryption is a key issue for these groups, and is additionally conflated with a human rights discourse. This serves to unite seemingly disparate interests by imbuing encryption with a responsibility for the protection of human rights, but also threatens to legitimate corporate interests and distract from their own data-driven activities of surveillance capitalism.

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