The State of Digital Rights
Today, we’re proud to release the State of Digital Rights report, which outlines the many ways Australians’ rights are being impacted by the activities of private companies and governments in the online world.
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New digital rights report foreshadows an eroding human rights landscape online
Posted on May 13, 2018
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Media releases
Australians’ human rights are being severely breached through the exploitation of online data according to a landmark report released today by Digital Rights Watch.
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Live Hack: Melbourne
How well does your city know you? You’ll be surprised by how much of your life can be pieced together from your metadata footprint – the traces you leave when you use everyday technology.
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Tech has no moral code. It is everyone's job now to fight for one
Posted on April 24, 2018
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Articles
It has been a tough two years for the technology industry. The 2016 US election was a turning point for what was formerly the face of upbeat, self-actualising capitalism. Today the common view is that a tiny minority has been making money by disrupting things at the expense of the majority. Technology companies are out of control because law-makers have been neglectful, indifferent or – worse – baffled by the prospect of regulation. But in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data-harvesting scandal, there is new interest in the role of ethical considerations in the work of technology companies, and the programmers who build their machinery.
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New report reveals dangerous lack of oversight of secret global surveillance networks, opening the door to human rights abuses
An unprecedented international collaborative investigation carried out by 40 NGOs in 42 countries has identified alarming weaknesses in the oversight arrangements that are supposed to govern the sharing of intelligence between state intelligence agencies.
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Submission to UN inquiry into the right to privacy in a digital age
Posted on April 10, 2018
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Submissions
On 23 March 2017, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 34/7 on “The right to privacy in the digital age”. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights then invited input on human rights challenges relating to the right to privacy in the digital age, including on principles, standards and best practices with regard to the promotion and protection of the right to privacy.
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