Big Data and Human Rights, a New and Sometimes Awkward Relationship
Despite their exciting potential to uncover human rights abuses, technologies that collect and analyze huge amounts of data can also infringe on other human rights. The AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition explored the way forward.
SPEAKERS INCLUDING EMMANUEL LETOUZÉ, WHO IS ALSO THE CARTOONIST MANU, DESCRIBED BIG DATA AND PETROLEUM AS COMMODITIES THAT CAN BENEFIT SOCIETY WHILE ALSO CREATING POWER IMBALANCES. | EMMANUEL LETOUZÉ
SPEAKERS INCLUDING EMMANUEL LETOUZÉ, WHO IS ALSO THE CARTOONIST MANU, DESCRIBED BIG DATA AND PETROLEUM AS COMMODITIES THAT CAN BENEFIT SOCIETY WHILE ALSO CREATING POWER IMBALANCES. | EMMANUEL LETOUZÉ
Kathy Wren-28 January 2015
Even as experts at a recent meeting showed how big-data technologies can reveal and document human rights abuses like child sex trafficking, they and others in the audience were considering the implications for privacy, free expression, and other human rights.
Big Data and Human Rights, A New and Sometimes Awkward Relationship by Thavam Ratna
Big Data and Human Rights, A New and Sometimes Awkward Relationship by Thavam Ratna
