Author archive for HRBDT

  • Jan012020

    HRBDT News Summary 2019

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    It is a great pleasure to introduce this newsletter, celebrating the work of the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and…

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  • Dec312019

    Documenting potential Human Rights Violations using Natural Language Processing, Images and Open-Source Information

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    The project has continued work on developing new approaches to documenting human rights through the use of natural language processing,…

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  • Dec312019

    Investigating Opportunities and Threats to the Right to Health in a New Data-driven Economy

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    A key part of HRBDT’s research is investigation into how data analytics and AI technologies can promote and hinder human…

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  • Dec312019

    Privacy Nudging in Search: Investigating Potential Impacts

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    Concerns around individual’s privacy is a regular topic in the media. In 2019, HRBDT’s PhD student Steven Zimmerman published two…

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  • Dec312019

    Addressing the Human Rights Impacts of Misinformation without Further Harming Human Rights

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    A major area of research for HRBDT is the human rights impact of misinformation and disinformation and state and business…

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  • Dec312019

    Creating Human Rights principles for intelligence oversight

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    Research has continued on intelligence oversight with ongoing collaboration with the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office. This initiative comprised a number…

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  • Dec312019

    Exploring the Demands for Data and Technology by the Users of Digital Policing

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    Researchers Daniel Marciniak and Prof Pete Fussey have completed an ethnography of digital policing in the New Orleans Police Department…

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  • Dec312019

    Reporting on Live Facial Recognition Trials

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    In July, Prof Pete Fussey and Dr Daragh Murray published their Independent Report of Metropolitan Police Service’s trials of Live…

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  • Dec312019
    12th Asia Human Rights Forum, Seoul, South Korea

    Ensuring Individuals and Groups can Access Justice and Remedies where Their Rights have been Affected by the Use of AI

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    A major part of HRBDT’s research is on access to justice and remedies for individuals and groups whose human rights…

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  • Dec312019
    Prof Sheldon Leader

    Dealing with Problems of Consent in the Digital Age

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    As ever more data are generated from online activity, there is more processing of personal data without meaningful consent being…

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