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020 _a9781107179639
082 _a341.231.14
_bLAN
100 _aLand, Molly K. Ed.
100 _aAronson, Jay D. Ed.
245 _aNew technologies for human rights law and practice
260 _aUK
_bCambridge University Press
_c2018
300 _axiv, 318p.
_b24 cm.
500 _aNew 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. This title is also available as Open Access. Defines a 'human rights approach' to technology Provides analysis grounded in human rights law and practice Action-oriented and focused on justice as a primary outcome This title is also available as Open Access
520 _a 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. This title is also available as Open Access.
650 _aTechnology -- Law.
650 _aHuman rights -- Law.
650 _a1. The promise and peril of human rights technology Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson
650 _aPart I. Normative Approaches to Technology and Human Rights:
650 _a2. Safeguarding human rights from problematic technologies Lea Shaver
650 _a3. Climate change, human rights, and technology transfer: normative challenges and technical opportunities Dalindyebo Shabalala
650 _a4. Judging bioethics and human rights Thérèse Murphy
650 _a5. Drones, automated weapons, and private military contractors: challenges to domestic and international legal regimes governing armed conflict Laura A. Dickinson
650 _aPart II. Technology and Human Rights Enforcement:
650 _a6. The utility of user generated content in human rights investigations Jay D. Aronson
650 _a7. Big data analytics and human rights: privacy considerations in context Mark Latonero
650 _a8. The challenging power of data visualization for human rights advocacy John Emerson, Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Anshul Vikram Pandey
650 _a9. Risk and the pluralism of digital human rights fact-finding and advocacy Ella McPherson
650 _aPart III. Beyond Public/Private: States, Companies, and Citizens:
650 _a10. Digital communications and the evolving right to privacy Lisl Brunner
650 _a11. Human rights and private actors in the online domain Rikke Frank Jørgensen
650 _a12. Technology, self-inflicted vulnerability, and human rights G. Alex Sinha
650 _a13. The future of human rights technology: a practitioner's view Enrique Piracés
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