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New Research Paper: Caught in the Act? An analysis of Germany’s new SIGINT reform
in Facial recognition research, Intelligence oversight research, News, Surveillance and Human Rights, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreA newly published research report analysing democratic governance of foreign intelligence collection in Germany calls for comprehensive rights-based intelligence reform.…
- HRBDT
Interim Report on the Freedom of Thought
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 19th October 2021, Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, presented his thematic report on the…
- HRBDT
New Research Paper: Facial Recognition Technology in India
Read moreThe HRBDT and the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) have jointly published a research paper on facial recognition technology.…
- Katerina Hadjimatheou
The Relationship Between Big Tech and Policing is Shielded Behind Commercial Confidentiality – It’s a Problem
Read moreThis article by Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou originally appeared on The Conversation website on 4 August 2021. For over ten years, public…
- HRBDT
Time Talk Podcast by Sabrina Rau on The Role of Technology Companies during Covid-19
Read moreOn 30 March 2021, Sabrina Rau joined the Talk Time project as guest speaker for their podcast to talk about…
- Pete Fussey
GCHQ’s Ethical Approach to AI: An Initial Human Rights-Based Response
Read moreThis post originally appeared on the about:intel website on 5 March 2021. The UK’s intelligence and security agency (GCHQ) recently…
- Sonia Bhalotra
New Economic Considerations for Investing in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Read moreOn 23 March 2021, Prof Sonia Bhalotra joined leading economists, biomedical and social science experts and public health leaders at…
- Sonia Bhalotra
CIPER Features Article on Preliminary Research Findings by Sonia Bhalotra and Co-authors on Domestic Violence in Chile During Lockdown
Read moreA report undertaken by Prof Sonia Bhalotra and co-authors including Damian Clarke and Pilar Larroulet, Emilia Brito and Francisco Pino…
- HRBDT
HRBDT News Update: September – December 2020
in COVID-19, Events, Facial recognition research, Health research, Humanitarian assistance research, Intelligence oversight research, Law enforcement research, Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News, Open source investigations research / / 0 commentsRead moreI am delighted to introduce the second update of the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project for 2020…
- HRBDT
A shadow pandemic of domestic violence: The potential role of job loss and unemployment benefits
Read moreThis blog by Sonia Bhalotra originally appeared on VoxEU website on 13 November 2020. There has been a global surge…
- HRBDT
Surveillance Arbitration in the Era of Digital Policing
in Facial recognition research, Law enforcement research, News, Surveillance and Human Rights / / 0 commentsRead moreIn their latest article, published in Theoretical Criminology (29 October 2020), Professor Pete Fussey and Dr Ajay Sandhu analyse the…
- HRBDT
Human Rights Expert Receives Major Funding To Investigate Impact of Algorithms on Democracy
in Algorithmic accountability research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreDr Daragh Murray, a member of the Human Rights Big Data and Technology Project, has been awarded major funding to…
- HRBDT
‘Assisted’ Facial Recognition and the Reinvention of Suspicion and Discretion in Digital Policing
in Facial recognition research, Law enforcement research, News, Surveillance and Human Rights / / 0 commentsRead moreAutomated facial recognition (AFR) surveillance has emerged as a particularly controversial technology among the growing armoury of digital policing tools. …
- HRBDT
Big Data on BHR: Innovative Approaches to Analysing the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre Database
Read moreOn 30 September 2020 an article published in the Business and Human Rights Journal by Dr James Allen-Robertson and co-authors…
- HRBDT
HRBDT News Update: January – August 2020
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreI am delighted to introduce the first update of the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project for 2020,…
- HRBDT
Essex Expertise Informs Facial Recognition Decision
Read moreThe expertise and leading-edge research of three Essex academics has informed a landmark judgment on police use of facial recognition.…
- Carmel Williams
AI’s Role in COVID-19 Poses Human Rights Risks Beyond Privacy
in Blog, COVID-19, Health and Human Rights, Health research, Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreBlog written by Carmel Williams. It should come as no surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) is being positioned as significant to…
- HRBDT
When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong – Pete Fussey Interviewed for Police and Facial Recognition Podcast by MIT Technology Review
Read moreProject Co-Director Prof Pete Fussey was recently interviewed for ‘When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong’, the first in a four-part…
- HRBDT
The ‘Uberization of Policing’? How Police Negotiate and Operationalise Predictive Policing Technology
in Intelligence oversight research, Law enforcement research, News, Surveillance and Human Rights / / 0 commentsRead morePredictive policing generally refers to police work that utilises strategies, algorithmic technologies, and big data to generate near-future predictions about…
- HRBDT
Applied Development Economics Series – “Layoffs, Benefits and Intimate Partner Violence”
in Health research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreProfessor Sonia Bhalotra presented research at a virtual seminar organised by The Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB)…
- HRBDT
COVID-19, Law and Human Rights: Essex Dialogues
Read moreResearchers from the HRBDT project have contributed to an extensive response to the coronavirus pandemic published by the Human Rights…
- Sonia Bhalotra
Policy Briefing on the Escalation of Domestic Violence During the Covid-19 Related Lockdown
Read moreSocial distancing in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic has led to millions of families the world over being…
- Ahmed Shaheed
A Conversation with U.N. Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed: Covid 19 and Freedom of Belief
in Blog, COVID-19, Health research, Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreThis interview first appeared in Just Security on 18 June 2020. Ryan Goodman, Just Security‘s co-editor-in-chief, recently posed a series of…
- HRBDT
Webinar – Artificial Intelligence and Data Economy: A Business and Human Rights Approach
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 2 June 2020 Professor Lorna McGregor spoke at a virtual seminar organised by the British Institute of International and…
- HRBDT
Expert Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Privacy
Read moreThe Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights organised an expert seminar to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) affects…
- Lorna McGregor
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Five urgent principles for leaving no one behind through technology
in Advancing Human Rights and Humanitarian Responses Through Big Data, Blog, COVID-19, Health research, Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News, Surveillance and Human Rights, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreThis post first appeared on the Universal Rights Group website. The UN Secretary General has characterised the pandemic as a…
- Geoff Gilbert
Knowing all of the law, all of the time – responding to Covid 19
Read moreThis post originally appeared on the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law website on 14 May 2020. As Paul White has…
- HRBDT
HRBDT Team sets out Requirements for Deployment of UK Contact-Tracing App in Submission to UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights
Read moreThe Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project team, comprising experts in human rights law, surveillance and computer science from…
- HRBDT
Contact-tracing Apps and Human Rights
Read moreThis post originally appeared on the EJIL: Talk! blog. The Covid-19 pandemic engages the full spectrum of states’ human rights…
- HRBDT
COVID-19 Exit Through the App Store
Read moreAn Essex academic has contributed to a rapid evidence review on the technical considerations and societal implications of using technology…
- HRBDT
Right On – The Wednesday Web Chat
in COVID-19, Facial recognition research, Health research, Humanitarian assistance research, Intelligence oversight research, Law enforcement research, Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News, Open source investigations research / / 0 commentsRead moreThe HRBDT project is supporting a new digital initiative that aims to keep the Human Rights dialogue going during the…
- HRBDT
Discussion Series: Live Facial Recognition
Read moreIn July 2019 researchers from the Human Rights Big Data and Technology Project published the first independently-funded academic report into…
- HRBDT
Podcast of the Panel Discussion at the Book Launch for Digital Witness on 26 February 2020
in Events, Open source investigations research / / 0 commentsRead moreListen here to the Panel Discussion at the Book Launch of Digital Witness The panel discussion took place at the…
- HRBDT
Panel Discussion – Getting to the truth – Using Open Source Data to Defend Human Rights
in Events, Open source investigations research / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 25 February 2020 the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project and the Foreign Policy Centre co-hosted an event…
- HRBDT
Assessing failures of universal health coverage in a regime where the state can be held accountable- the case of Colombia
Read moreThis blog originally appeared in Spanish on: Foco económico: un blog latinoamericano de economía y política Sonia Bhalotra (University of…
- HRBDT
HRBDT News Summary 2019
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreIt is a great pleasure to introduce this newsletter, celebrating the work of the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and…
- HRBDT
Documenting potential Human Rights Violations using Natural Language Processing, Images and Open-Source Information
in Advancing Human Rights and Humanitarian Responses Through Big Data, News, Open source investigations research / / 0 commentsRead moreThe project has continued work on developing new approaches to documenting human rights through the use of natural language processing,…
- HRBDT
Investigating Opportunities and Threats to the Right to Health in a New Data-driven Economy
Read moreA key part of HRBDT’s research is investigation into how data analytics and AI technologies can promote and hinder human…
- HRBDT
Privacy Nudging in Search: Investigating Potential Impacts
in Advancing Human Rights and Humanitarian Responses Through Big Data, Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreConcerns around individual’s privacy is a regular topic in the media. In 2019, HRBDT’s PhD student Steven Zimmerman published two…
- HRBDT
Addressing the Human Rights Impacts of Misinformation without Further Harming Human Rights
in Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreA major area of research for HRBDT is the human rights impact of misinformation and disinformation and state and business…
- HRBDT
Creating Human Rights principles for intelligence oversight
Read moreResearch has continued on intelligence oversight with ongoing collaboration with the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office. This initiative comprised a number…
- HRBDT
Exploring the Demands for Data and Technology by the Users of Digital Policing
Read moreResearchers Daniel Marciniak and Prof Pete Fussey have completed an ethnography of digital policing in the New Orleans Police Department…
- HRBDT
Ensuring Individuals and Groups can Access Justice and Remedies where Their Rights have been Affected by the Use of AI
in Corporate Responsibility Research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreA major part of HRBDT’s research is on access to justice and remedies for individuals and groups whose human rights…
- HRBDT
Dealing with Problems of Consent in the Digital Age
in Consent research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreAs ever more data are generated from online activity, there is more processing of personal data without meaningful consent being…
- HRBDT
Ensuring that Human Rights are central to AI regulation and governance
in Algorithmic accountability research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreA key part of HRBDT’s work is to show how human rights are both affected by the design, development and…
- HRBDT
Collaborating with the United Nations
in News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreA major focus of the HRBDT project is contributing to the articulation of how human rights standards apply to AI,…
- HRBDT
Professor Sonia Bhalotra gives keynote lecture at Swedish National Health Policy Conference
in Health research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreProfessor Sonia Bhalotra gave an invited keynote lecture at the annual Swedish National Health Policy conference on 2 October 2019. The…
- Elena Abrusci
BBC Radio Essex Interview – Fake News
in Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreDr Elena Abrusci was interviewed by BBC Radio Essex about misinformation and disinformation – commonly known as ‘fake news’. Dr…
- HRBDT
Your Data: Why Should You Care?
in Consent research, Health research, Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 3 December 2019, Dr Elena Abrusci, Sabrina Rau (Senior Research Officers) and Amy Dickens (Doctoral Student) gave a presentation…
- HRBDT
The Key to a Sustainable Digital Future; Human Rights Safeguards
Read moreIn a recent article published by the European Financial Review Sabrina Rau explored some of the risks to individuals in…
- HRBDT
HRBDT Public Panel Discussion: “Facial Recognition and Human Rights” 10 September 2019
Read moreOn 10 September the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project hosted a panel discussion at The Royal Society on…
- HRBDT
BBC Radio 4 Interview – Facial Recognition
in Facial recognition research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreDr Daragh Murray was recently interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s PM programme. Daragh highlighted the human rights and public interest considerations…
- HRBDT
Sky news interview – The Met Police’s use of facial recognition
Read moreProfessor Fussey was interviewed by Sky news following the publication of the first independently-funded academic report into the use of…
- Pete Fussey
HRBDT Researchers Launch New Report on London Metropolitan Police’s Trial of Live Facial Recognition Technology
Read moreA new report by researchers from the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex…
- Carmel Williams
AI for Good but Good for All?
Read moreThe Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Houlin Zhao opened the third “AI for Good Summit” in Geneva…
- HRBDT
BBC Radio Essex Interview – Surveillance Technology
Read moreProfessor Pete Fussey was recently interviewed on BBC Radio Essex talking about his role leading the new human rights, data…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at panel on Protecting Privacy, Free Expression and Democracy
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 16 April 2019, Lorna McGregor moderated a multi-stakeholder discussion panel on “Protecting Privacy, Free Expression and Democracy”, at The…
- Laura Carter
Google’s pay audit and the meaning of ‘equality’
Read moreThis blog was originally published on the Human Rights Centre Blog. In March of this year, Google found that they were…
- HRBDT
Global Protection Cluster: The Use of Data to Promote Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming
in Advancing Human Rights and Humanitarian Responses Through Big Data, Humanitarian assistance research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreIn March, HRBDT hosted a symposium of the Global Protection Cluster (GPC) at the University of Essex on ‘The use…
- Lorna McGregor
The need for clear governance frameworks on predictive algorithms in military settings
Read moreThis post originally appeared on the Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog. Editor’s note: In this post, as part of the AI blog…
- HRBDT
HRBDT Public Panel Discussion: “Algorithmic Accountability and Human Rights” 26 March 2019
Read moreOn 26 March the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project hosted a panel discussion at The Royal Society on…
- HRBDT
The HRBDT Project Meets with UNHCR and UNOSAT to Discuss Using Technology to Help Protect Displaced Persons
in Humanitarian assistance research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreThe HRBDT Project is delighted to welcome Rebeca Moreno Jimenez (UNHCR), Sofia Kyriazi (UNHCR) and Katarina Palmkron (UNOSAT) for a…
- HRBDT
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Putting Human Rights at the Heart of the Design, Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreOur new HRBDT report on ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Putting Human Rights at the Heart of…
- Sabrina Rau
Those pop-up ‘I agree’ boxes aren’t just annoying – they’re potentially dangerous
in Blog, Consent research, Corporate Responsibility Research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreHave you noticed the increasing number of pop-ups asking you to consent or “agree” when you visit a website? Do…
- Amy Dickens
An End to PFI/PF2 – Implications for the Right to Health
Read moreOn 29thOctober 2018, Philip Hammond delivered a Conservative Budget declaring an end to austerity and outlining plans for a post-Brexit economy.…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at 2018 Freedom Online Conference, Berlin
Read moreOn 29 November 2018, Lorna McGregor attended the 2018 Freedom Online Conference in Berlin, organised by the Freedom Online Coalition. …
- HRBDT
International Expert Conference on Human Rights of Older Persons, Vienna
Read moreOn 12 November 2018, Lorna McGregor attended an International Expert Conference on Human Rights of Older Persons. The conference took…
- Carmel Williams
UN austerity and human rights report highlights Big Data risks in the UK
Read moreBig Data and artificial intelligence are, perhaps surprisingly, a featured highlight in the UN expert’s report on extreme poverty in…
- Carmel Williams
ALMA-ATA at 40: Its Values are Relevant to the Data Economy
Read moreIn 1978 when the Alma-Ata Declaration called on urgent action by all governments to protect and promote the health of…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at The Alan Turing Institute Workshop on Data Trusts
Read moreOn 28 August 2018, Lorna McGregor spoke at the ‘Data Trusts Workshop’ held at The Alan Turing Institute, London. Lorna…
- HRBDT
HRBDT provides evidence to The Law Society’s Public Policy Technology and Law Commission
Read moreOn 25 July 2018, Lorna McGregor gave evidence to The Law Society’s Public Policy Technology and Law Commission. The Law…
- Sabrina Rau
Free, Informed and Unambiguous Consent in the Digital Age: Fiction or Possibility?
in Blog, Consent research, Events, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 10 July, the Human Rights, Big Data, and Technology Project (HRBDT) co-hosted an event in London with the Law…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at Policy Roundtable on Application of Responsible AI: Opportunities for Policing
Read moreOn 17 November 2017, Pete Fussey participated in a Reform policy roundtable discussion in London on ‘Application of Responsible AI: Opportunities…
- Daragh Murray
Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom – Some initial thoughts
in Blog, Intelligence oversight research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreOn Thursday, 13 September 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down their decision in Big Brother Watch and…
- Vivian Ng
A Brief Review of the OHCHR Consultation on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
Read moreThe Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) conducted a consultation on the right to privacy…
- Vivian Ng
How Does Content Moderation Affect Human Rights? Commentary on the Case of Infowars
in Blog, Corporate Responsibility Research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 6 August 2018, Apple, Facebook and Spotify removed content from Alex Jones’s Infowars pages and accounts on their platforms, which were…
- Carmel Williams
Right to health impact assessments needed before using Big Data
Read moreBig Data is transforming health care in multiple ways, from patient management to diagnostic and treatment methods. These new technologies…
- Catherine Kent
RightsCon 2018 – Mobilising the Might of Rights: A Human Rights Based Approach to AI
in Algorithmic accountability research, Blog, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreArtificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on society demands scrutiny of the ways in which it is designed and deployed. Debates have…
- Vivian Ng
What Next After the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Revelations?
in Algorithmic accountability research, Blog, Consent research, Corporate Responsibility Research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 2 July 2018, the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology (HRBDT) Project co-hosted a panel discussion with the International…
- Sabrina Rau
HRBDT Conference – Human Rights in a Digital Age
in Algorithmic accountability research, Blog, Corporate Responsibility Research, Events, Humanitarian assistance research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 24 May 2018, The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology (HRBDT) Project, based at the Human Rights Centre at…
- Lorna McGregor
Why We Need to Stop Talking About ‘Killer Robots’ and Address the AI Backlash
in Algorithmic accountability research, Blog, Companion robots research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreThis post originally appeared on EJIL: Talk! In the field of artificial intelligence, the spectacle of the ‘killer robot’ looms…
- HRBDT
What Next After the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Revelations?
Read moreOn 2 July 2018, the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology (HRBDT) Project co-hosted a panel discussion with the International…
- Daragh Murray
Quick Comment on UK Draft Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018 and the Definition of ‘Serious Crime’ for Bulk Surveillance Powers
Read moreThe UK Government has published the Draft Data Retention and Acquisition Regulations 2018, which propose changes to the Investigatory Powers…
- Sabrina Rau
The Call for Radical Transparency, Meaningful Accountability and Commitment to Remedy – David Kaye’s Report on Content Regulation
in Blog, Corporate Responsibility Research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 6 April 2018, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and…
- James Allen-Robertson
Finding Trump with Neural Networks
Read moreThis post originally appeared on Medium When the President tweets, how do we know who is really behind the keyboard? With a trained…
- Lorna McGregor
Google’s new principles on AI need to be better at protecting human rights
in Blog, Corporate Responsibility Research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreOriginally published by The Conversation on 15 June 2018. There are growing concerns about the potential risks of AI –…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at the 2018 Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum
in Events, Humanitarian assistance research, Mis and disinformation and deep fakes research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreFrom 11 – 13 June 2018, the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum took place in Bonn. Attended by over 2,000…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at 4th International Human Rights Symposium in Seoul
Read moreOn 5 June 2018, the 4th International Human Rights Symposium took place in Seoul, convened by the Ministry of Justice…
- Lorna McGregor
Cambridge Analytica is more than a data breach – it’s a human rights problem
in Blog, Consent research, Corporate Responsibility Research, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreOriginally published in The Conversation on 4 June 2018. The closure of Cambridge Analytica following the revelations about its use…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at the Data Justice Conference 2018
Read moreLorna McGregor and Vivian Ng participated in the Data Justice Conference 2018 hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff…
- Vivian Ng
Locating Human Rights in the Critical Analysis of Algorithmic Decision-Making: A Brief Commentary on the Science and Technology Committee Report on Algorithms in Decision-Making
Read moreThe House of Commons Science and Technology Committee recently released the Fourth Report of Session 2017-2019 on ‘Algorithms in decision-making’. The release…
- HRBDT
Four ways your Google searches and social media affect your opportunities in life
in Algorithmic accountability research, Blog, Law enforcement research, News, Open source investigations research / / 0 commentsRead moreBy Lorna McGregor, Daragh Murray and Vivian Ng Originally published in The Conversation on 21 May 2018. Whether or not you realise…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at RightsCon 2018 – Mobilising the Might of Rights: A Human Rights Based Approach to AI
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 17 May 2018, the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project hosted a session at RightsCon on a human…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at the 2018 Global Scholars Symposium
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 11 – 13 May 2018, the Global Scholars Symposium took place at the University of Oxford. The Symposium, for…
- Amy Dickens
Beyond privacy: the right to health implications of data sharing partnerships in healthcare
Read moreIn November 2015, the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust transferred over 1.6 million identifiable patient records to DeepMind, an artificial intelligence…
- Daragh Murray
Police are using big data to profile young people, putting them at risk of discrimination
Read moreOriginally published in The Conversation on 16 May 2018. Amnesty International has raised a series of human rights issues in…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at the 6th Annual Unintended Consequences Conference
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 7 – 8 May 2018, the 6th annual Unintended Consequences (UC) Conference on ‘The Power of Failure: New Perspectives…
- Carmel Williams
Big Data Can Strengthen UPR Monitoring and Promote Improved Policies
Read moreThe UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) operates a five-year cycle for all countries to demonstrate compliance with…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at RUSI Workshop on ‘Artificial Intelligence, Prediction and Criminal Justice Decision-Making’
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 2 May 2018, a RUSI workshop on ‘Artificial Intelligence, Prediction and Criminal Justice Decision-Making’ took place, co-organised with the…
- HRBDT
HRBDT at the 2018 BILETA Conference
in News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 10 – 11 April 2018, the British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA) 2018 Annual Conference took…
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