New technologies for human rights law and practice /
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 qu...
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Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
Publication Dates: | 2018. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
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 human rights in regulating these actors. This volume - edited by Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson - provides an essential roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. It offers cutting-edge analysis and practical strategies in contexts as diverse as autonomous lethal weapons, climate change technology, the Internet and social media, and water meters. |
Carrier Form: | xiv, 318 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781107179639 1107179637 9781316631416 1316631419 9781316838952 1316838951 |
Index Number: | K3240 |
CLC: | D912.7 |
Call Number: | D912.7/N532 |
Contents: | The promise and peril of human rights technology / Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson -- Safeguarding human rights from problematic technologies / Lea Shaver -- Climate change, human rights and technology transfer : normative challenges and technical opportunities / Dalindyebo Shabalala -- Judging bioethics and human rights / Thérèse Murphy -- Drones, automated weapons, and private military contractors : challenges to domestic and international legal regimes governing armed conflict / Laura A. Dickinson -- The utility of user-generated content in human rights investigations / Jay D. Aronson -- Big data analytics and human rights : privacy considerations in context / Mark Latonero -- The challenging power of data visualization for human rights advocacy / John Emerson, Margaret L. Satterthwaite, and Anshul Vikram Pandey -- Risk and the pluralism of digital human rights fact-finding and advocacy / Ella McPherson -- Digital communications and the evolving right to privacy / Lisl Brunner -- Human rights and private actors in the online domain / Rikke Frank Jørgensen -- Technology, self-inflicted vulnerability, and human rights / G. Alex Sinha -- The future of human rights technology : a practitioner's view / Enrique Piracés. |