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By Krisztina Huszti-Orban Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. You can follow the HRBDT project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
By Jenna Dolecek Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, United States is a First Nations Sioux sovereign territory. A reservation is a piece of land that the US government set aside for Native Americans to reside on. Historically, tribes were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands to reservations. However, with a reservation comes tribal sovereignty, […]
Editor’s note: This post forms part of a larger series addressing key issues related to human rights, technology & big data. In work stream three of the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, we are examining three overriding questions about big data and each of these we look at from a right to health perspective. In this […]
By Tara Van Ho This year’s UN Forum on Business and Human Rights took place last week. Repeatedly, speakers raised the significance of #brexiTrump (the combination of the #brexit and Trump votes) while questioning its impact for the field. This post attempts to respond to questions from colleagues in the field about where we go […]
Editor’s note: This post forms part of a larger series addressing key issues related to human rights, technology & big data. Digital technologies have permeated our everyday lives. Nothing exemplifies this more than the smartphone. These small hand held devices help us communicate with one another, schedule our activities, and procure knowledge from the Internet. While […]
Editor’s note: This post forms part of a larger series addressing key issues related to human rights, technology & big data. Last week, we discussed the promises of big data and technology in relation to human rights. This week, we turn to the perils and consider the risks to human rights including, but beyond, the right to […]
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Editor’s note: This post forms part of a larger series addressing key issues related to human rights, technology & big data. The world is only just beginning to understand the impact and change that big data and associated technology are bringing to how we live and interact. Technology is becoming more powerful and multifunctional by […]
The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the University of Essex, maps and analyses the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of big data and associated technologies from a human rights perspective. The Project assesses whether fundamental human rights concepts and the framework itself is adequate or […]
Prepared by Amy Dickens & Krisztina Huszti-Orban Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. You can follow the HRBDT project on twitter: @hrbdtNews. This week’s summary contains news articles from the last two weeks.
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