Human Rights Council on the Right to Privacy
February 24 2021 - 12:00PM
Human Rights Council on the Right
to Privacy
OISTE.ORG to Address Virtually
the 46th Session of the United
Nations Human Rights Council on the Right to
Privacy
March 3rd 2021 at 3 PM CET
Privacy is as a basic, fundamental human
right
Geneva, February 24, 2021 – The OISTE Foundation, a
non-governmental organization, in special consultative status with
the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC),
will lead a virtual panel on the human right to privacy during the
46th Session of the Human Rights Council.
Zoom Registration at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HXWDJD60SnWsYKdPaFHTJg
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.
Date & Time |
Mar 3rd
03:00 pm CET |
Title |
OISTE Foundation
Webinar; The Human Right to Privacy in the Age of
Surveillance Capitalism |
Special Keynote by |
– Pierre
Maudet, Conseiller d’Etat, State of Geneva, |
Moderated by: |
– Carlos Creus
Moreira, Secretary General of OISTE |
Speakers |
– Navi
Pillay, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
OHCHR – Hans-Christian Boos, CEO, Arago
– Sébastien Fanti, Swiss lawyer, Notary,
and Data Protection Commissioner of the Swiss Canton
of Valais – Estelle Massé, Senior Policy
Analyst and Global Data Protection Lead – Access Now
– Alana Tart, Senior digital, technology
and privacy lawyer – PMI – Steve
Crown, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel,
Human Rights – Microsoft |
For these reasons, 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
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 FOUNDATION Founded 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
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