New technologies for human rights law and practice / / edited by Molly K. Land, Jay D. Aronson.

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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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, England : : Cambridge University Press,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages)
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Table of 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 / Thérése 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.