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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…
HRBDTUnmasking Covid: Inequalities, Innovations and Impact
Read moreWednesday 2 December 2020 1:00 – 4:30pm Register for online event here Staff and students from the Tavistock and…
HRBDTMapping people, knowledge and data in times of Crisis
Read more20 November 2020, 6.00pm – 7.30pm Hosted by Damien Short (ICwS, University of London) and presented by the School of…
HRBDTSurveillance Arbitration in the Era of Digital Policing
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTHuman Rights Expert Receives Major Funding To Investigate Impact of Algorithms on Democracy
Read moreDr Daragh Murray, a member of the Human Rights Big Data and Technology Project, has been awarded major funding to…
HRBDTHuman Rights Centre Speaker Series: What place for human rights in the UK’s COVID-19 response?
Read moreCo-hosted by the Human Rights Centre and the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, University of Essex Oct…
HRBDT‘Assisted’ Facial Recognition and the Reinvention of Suspicion and Discretion in Digital Policing
By HRBDT 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. …
HRBDTBig 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…
HRBDTHRBDT News Update: January – August 2020
Read moreI am delighted to introduce the first update of the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project for 2020,…
HRBDTEssex 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.…
HRBDTAI’s Role in COVID-19 Poses Human Rights Risks Beyond Privacy
By Carmel Williams 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…
Carmel WilliamsWhen 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…
HRBDTThe ‘Uberization of Policing’? How Police Negotiate and Operationalise Predictive Policing Technology
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTApplied Development Economics Series – “Layoffs, Benefits and Intimate Partner Violence”
Read moreProfessor Sonia Bhalotra presented research at a virtual seminar organised by The Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB)…
HRBDTCOVID-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…
HRBDTPolicy 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…
Sonia BhalotraA Conversation with U.N. Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed: Covid 19 and Freedom of Belief
By Ahmed Shaheed 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…
Ahmed ShaheedWebinar – Artificial Intelligence and Data Economy: A Business and Human Rights Approach
Read moreOn 2 June 2020 Professor Lorna McGregor spoke at a virtual seminar organised by the British Institute of International and…
HRBDTExpert 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…
HRBDTThe COVID-19 Pandemic: Five urgent principles for leaving no one behind through technology
By Lorna McGregor 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…
Lorna McGregorKnowing 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…
Geoff GilbertHRBDT 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…
HRBDTContact-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…
HRBDTCOVID-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…
HRBDTRight On – The Wednesday Web Chat
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTDiscussion 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…
HRBDTPodcast of the Panel Discussion at the Book Launch for Digital Witness on 26 February 2020
Read moreListen here to the Panel Discussion at the Book Launch of Digital Witness The panel discussion took place at the…
HRBDTPanel Discussion – Getting to the truth – Using Open Source Data to Defend Human Rights
Read moreOn 25 February 2020 the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project and the Foreign Policy Centre co-hosted an event…
HRBDTUpcoming Event – Book Launch for Digital Witness – 26 February 2020
Read moreUsing Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigations 26 February 2020 6.30 – 8.00 pm Human Rights Action Centre Amnesty…
HRBDTAssessing 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…
HRBDTHRBDT News Summary 2019
Read moreIt is a great pleasure to introduce this newsletter, celebrating the work of the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and…
HRBDTDocumenting potential Human Rights Violations using Natural Language Processing, Images and Open-Source Information
By HRBDT 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,…
HRBDTInvestigating 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…
HRBDTPrivacy Nudging in Search: Investigating Potential Impacts
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTAddressing the Human Rights Impacts of Misinformation without Further Harming Human Rights
Read moreA major area of research for HRBDT is the human rights impact of misinformation and disinformation and state and business…
HRBDTCreating 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…
HRBDTExploring 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…
HRBDTEnsuring Individuals and Groups can Access Justice and Remedies where Their Rights have been Affected by the Use of AI
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTDealing with Problems of Consent in the Digital Age
Read moreAs ever more data are generated from online activity, there is more processing of personal data without meaningful consent being…
HRBDTEnsuring that Human Rights are central to AI regulation and governance
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTCollaborating with the United Nations
By HRBDT 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,…
HRBDTProfessor Sonia Bhalotra gives keynote lecture at Swedish National Health Policy Conference
Read moreProfessor Sonia Bhalotra gave an invited keynote lecture at the annual Swedish National Health Policy conference on 2 October 2019. The…
HRBDTBBC Radio Essex Interview – Fake News
Read moreDr Elena Abrusci was interviewed by BBC Radio Essex about misinformation and disinformation – commonly known as ‘fake news’. Dr…
Elena AbrusciYour Data: Why Should You Care?
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTThe 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…
HRBDTHRBDT 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…
HRBDTBBC Radio 4 Interview – Facial Recognition
Read moreDr Daragh Murray was recently interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s PM programme. Daragh highlighted the human rights and public interest considerations…
HRBDTHRBDT 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…
Pete FusseyAI 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…
Carmel WilliamsBBC 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…
HRBDTHRBDT at panel on Protecting Privacy, Free Expression and Democracy
Read moreOn 16 April 2019, Lorna McGregor moderated a multi-stakeholder discussion panel on “Protecting Privacy, Free Expression and Democracy”, at The…
HRBDTGoogle’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…
Laura CarterGlobal Protection Cluster: The Use of Data to Promote Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTThe 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…
Lorna McGregorHRBDT 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…
HRBDTThe HRBDT Project Meets with UNHCR and UNOSAT to Discuss Using Technology to Help Protect Displaced Persons
Read moreThe HRBDT Project is delighted to welcome Rebeca Moreno Jimenez (UNHCR), Sofia Kyriazi (UNHCR) and Katarina Palmkron (UNOSAT) for a…
HRBDTThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Putting Human Rights at the Heart of the Design, Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence
Read moreOur new HRBDT report on ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Putting Human Rights at the Heart of…
HRBDTThose pop-up ‘I agree’ boxes aren’t just annoying – they’re potentially dangerous
By Sabrina Rau 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…
Sabrina RauAn 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.…
Amy DickensHRBDT 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. …
HRBDTInternational 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…
HRBDTUN 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 WilliamsALMA-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…
Carmel WilliamsHRBDT 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…
HRBDTHRBDT provides evidence to The Law Society’s Public Policy Technology and Law Commission
By HRBDT in Algorithmic accountability research, Events, Law enforcement research, News / / 0 commentsRead moreOn 25 July 2018, Lorna McGregor gave evidence to The Law Society’s Public Policy Technology and Law Commission. The Law…
HRBDTFree, Informed and Unambiguous Consent in the Digital Age: Fiction or Possibility?
By Sabrina Rau 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…
Sabrina RauHRBDT 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…
HRBDTBig Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom – Some initial thoughts
By Daragh Murray 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…
Daragh MurrayA Brief Review of the OHCHR Consultation on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
By Vivian Ng in Blog, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreThe Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) conducted a consultation on the right to privacy…
Vivian NgHow Does Content Moderation Affect Human Rights? Commentary on the Case of Infowars
By Vivian Ng 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…
Vivian NgRight 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…
Carmel WilliamsRightsCon 2018 – Mobilising the Might of Rights: A Human Rights Based Approach to AI
By Catherine Kent 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…
Catherine KentWhat Next After the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Revelations?
By Vivian Ng 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…
Vivian NgHRBDT Conference – Human Rights in a Digital Age
By Sabrina Rau 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…
Sabrina RauWhy We Need to Stop Talking About ‘Killer Robots’ and Address the AI Backlash
By Lorna McGregor 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…
Lorna McGregorWhat 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…
HRBDTQuick 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…
Daragh MurrayThe Call for Radical Transparency, Meaningful Accountability and Commitment to Remedy – David Kaye’s Report on Content Regulation
By Sabrina Rau 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…
Sabrina RauFinding Trump with Neural Networks
By James Allen-Robertson in Blog, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreThis post originally appeared on Medium When the President tweets, how do we know who is really behind the keyboard? With a trained…
James Allen-RobertsonGoogle’s new principles on AI need to be better at protecting human rights
By Lorna McGregor 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 –…
Lorna McGregorHRBDT at the 2018 Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTHRBDT 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…
HRBDTCambridge Analytica is more than a data breach – it’s a human rights problem
By Lorna McGregor 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…
Lorna McGregorHRBDT 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…
HRBDTLocating 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
By Vivian Ng in Blog, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreThe House of Commons Science and Technology Committee recently released the Fourth Report of Session 2017-2019 on ‘Algorithms in decision-making’. The release…
Vivian NgFour ways your Google searches and social media affect your opportunities in life
By HRBDT 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…
HRBDTHRBDT at RightsCon 2018 – Mobilising the Might of Rights: A Human Rights Based Approach to AI
Read moreOn 17 May 2018, the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project hosted a session at RightsCon on a human…
HRBDTHRBDT at the 2018 Global Scholars Symposium
Read moreOn 11 – 13 May 2018, the Global Scholars Symposium took place at the University of Oxford. The Symposium, for…
HRBDTBeyond 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…
Amy DickensPolice 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…
Daragh MurrayHRBDT at the 6th Annual Unintended Consequences Conference
Read moreOn 7 – 8 May 2018, the 6th annual Unintended Consequences (UC) Conference on ‘The Power of Failure: New Perspectives…
HRBDTBig 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…
Carmel WilliamsHRBDT at RUSI Workshop on ‘Artificial Intelligence, Prediction and Criminal Justice Decision-Making’
Read moreOn 2 May 2018, a RUSI workshop on ‘Artificial Intelligence, Prediction and Criminal Justice Decision-Making’ took place, co-organised with the…
HRBDTHRBDT at the 2018 BILETA Conference
Read moreOn 10 – 11 April 2018, the British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA) 2018 Annual Conference took…
HRBDTHRBDT Lecture at the University of Wrocław
Read moreOn 19 April 2018, Dr Krzysztof Garstka gave a lecture at the University of Wrocław on ‘From Cyberpunk to Regulation:…
HRBDTBusinesses as Gatekeepers to Online Content: A Human Rights Approach
Read moreOn 11 April 2018, a seminar titled, “Businesses as Gatekeepers to Online Content: a Human Rights Approach ” took place…
Sabrina RauCybersecurity and Human Rights: Some Reflections
By Vivian Ng in Blog, News, Technology, Big Data and Human Rights: Scope, Methods and Regulation / / 0 commentsRead moreThe Bury St Edmunds Amnesty International Group and West Suffolk College co-organised a conference on Cybersecurity and Human Rights on 11 January…
Vivian NgHRBDT at 2018 FIDH International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights
Read moreOn 17 March, Lorna McGregor spoke on the panel ‘Artificial Intelligence: Opportunity or threat for human rights?’ at the International…
HRBDTHRBDT at Workshop on Economics of Health Behaviours and Information
Read moreOn 15 – 16 March 2018, Sonia Bhalotra chaired a panel session on ‘What works in health messaging? New international research’…
HRBDTHRBDT at the Post-Truth Phenomenon Conference
Read moreOn 15 – 17 March 2018, the Post-Truth Conference was held at the University of Cambridge. The conference aimed at…
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