WISeKey and OISTE.ORG Foundation to Present Digital Human Rights to Privacy and Digital Identity at The World Law Congress Colombia 2021
December 01 2021 - 1:06PM
WISeKey
and OISTE.ORG
Foundation to
Present
Digital
Human
Rights to Privacy and
Digital
Identity at The
World Law Congress Colombia 2021GENEVA
– December 1, 2021:
- WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN,
NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading global cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain, and
IoT company, today announced that in collaboration with OISTE.ORG
Foundation will be presenting Digital Human Rights to Privacy and
Digital Identity at The World Law Congress Colombia 2021.
In cooperation with the World Jurist
Association (WJA), Ministry of Justice and Law of
Colombia, and the Mayor’s Office of Barranquilla,
the World Law Congress Colombia 2021 will be held on
December 2-3, 2021 at the Puerta de Oro Centre, in
Barranquilla. List of speakers can be found at
https://barranquilla.worldlawcongress.com/speakers/.
Thus, Barranquilla (also known as La Arenosa) will become the
world’s law capital during these two days, where heads of states
including Iván Duque and Felipe VI, King of Spain, presidents
and judges of high and international courts, general prosecutors
and representatives of international organizations will discuss,
among other aspects, the role of technology in the application of
justice. The event will be attended by academics, lawyers,
businessmen, human rights activists and law students from all
continents.
Privacy is as a basic, fundamental human right. It is also an
endangered right. New digital technologies track and scrutinize us
all at this age of surveillance capitalism (Zuboff,
2018). The digital economy considers every click, search or like as
an asset to be monetized. Our lives, reflected in cyberspace, are
plundered for behavioral data for the sake of a system that
converts our freedom into profit. We are quietly being domesticated
into accepting as normal that decision rights vanish before we even
know that there is a decision to make.
“A new awareness infused by a human-rights based approach that
consider each individual “netizen” as a dignified moral being,
worth of respect, is required. Otherwise, our connectivity will
continue to offer a perverse amalgam of empowerment inextricably
layered with diminishment,” said Carlos Moreira, WISeKey’s Founder
and CEO. For more information visit -
https://www.asuntoslegales.com.co/actualidad/la-tecnologia-tiene-una-evolucion-exponencial-crece-mucho-mas-rapido-que-la-legislacion-3266335.
For these reasons, WISeKey and the Foundation OISTE, – building
upon the various resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly and
the Human Rights Council touching on the protection and promotion
of the right to privacy in the digital age – has set up a panel to
address, inter alia, the following issues:
- Identifying and clarifying principles, standards and best
practices regarding the promotion and protection of the human right
to privacy
- Reinforcing the principles of non-arbitrariness, lawfulness,
legality, necessity and proportionality in communications
surveillance by the State.
- Ensuring that profiling, automated decision-making and
machine-learning technologies do proceed in accordance to agreed
safeguards and do not affect the enjoyment of human rights
- Introducing a gender perspective and ensuring that there exists
effective domestic oversight and remedies for the violation of the
human right to privacy
- Addressing the issue of personal data management: often
individuals do not provide their free, explicit and informed
consent to the re-use, sale or multiple re-sales of their personal
data
- Addressing the issue of human rights impacts of artificial
intelligence, with a particular focus on examples of discrimination
and bias
WISeKey and the OISTE Foundation signed The International
Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications
Surveillance right after they were launched at the 24th session of
the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in 2013. OISTE
invites other organizations to
join: https://necessaryandproportionate.org/
About OISTE FOUNDATIONFounded in Switzerland in
1998, OISTE was created with the objectives of promoting the use
and adoption of international standards to secure electronic
transactions, expand the use of digital certification and ensure
the interoperability of certification authorities’ e-transaction
systems. The OISTE Foundation is a not for profit organization
based in Geneva, Switzerland, regulated by article 80 et seq. of
the Swiss Civil Code. OISTE is an organization in special
consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the
United Nations (ECOSOC) and belongs to the Not-for-Profit
constituency (NPOC) of the ICANN.
Contact OISTE FOUNDATIONNicolas
Ducornducor@oiste.org
About WISeKey
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading
global cybersecurity company currently deploying large-scale
digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using
Blockchain, AI, and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the
Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing
shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an
installed base of over 1.6 billion microchips in virtually all IoT
sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural
sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers,
mobile phones, crypto tokens, etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned
to be at the leading edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a
huge amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial
Intelligence (AI), can help industrial applications predict the
failure of their equipment before it happens.Our technology is
Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss-based cryptographic Root of
Trust (“RoT”) provides secure authentication and identification, in
both physical and virtual environments, for the Internet of Things,
Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as
a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity of online
transactions among objects and between objects and people. For more
information, visit www.wisekey.com.
Press and investor contacts:WISeKey
International Holding LtdCompany Contact: Carlos MoreiraChairman
& CEOTel: +41 22 594 3000info@wisekey.com
WISeKey Investor Relations (US)Contact: Lena CatiThe Equity
Group Inc.Tel: +1 212 836-9611lcati@equityny.com
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