New technologies for human rights law and practice / edited by Molly K. Land, Jay D. Aronson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Land, Molly K., 1974- editor.

Aronson, Jay D., 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Technological innovations--Law and legislation.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

New technological innovations offer significant opportunities to promote and protect human rights. At the same time, they also pose undeniable risks. In some areas, they may even be changing what we mean by human rights. The fact that new technologies are often privately controlled raises further questions about accountability and transparency and the role of human rights in regulating these actors. This volume - edited by Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson - provides an essential roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. It offers cutting-edge analysis and practical strategies in contexts as diverse as autonomous lethal weapons, climate change technology, the Internet and social media, and water meters. This title is also available as Open Access.

Contents:

The promise and peril of human rights technology / Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson

Safeguarding human rights from problematic technologies / Lea Shaver

Climate change, human rights and technology transfer : normative challenges and technical opportunities / Dalindyebo Shabalala

Judging bioethics and human rights / Thérése Murphy

Drones, automated weapons, and private military contractors : challenges to domestic and international legal regimes governing armed conflict / Laura A. Dickinson

The utility of user-generated content in human rights investigations / Jay D. Aronson

Big data analytics and human rights : privacy considerations in context / Mark Latonero

The challenging power of data visualization for human rights advocacy / John Emerson, Margaret L. Satterthwaite, and Anshul Vikram Pandey

Risk and the pluralism of digital human rights fact-finding and advocacy / Ella McPherson

Digital communications and the evolving right to privacy / Lisl Brunner

Human rights and private actors in the online domain / Rikke Frank Jørgensen

Technology, self-inflicted vulnerability, and human rights / G. Alex Sinha

The future of human rights technology : a practitioner's view / Enrique Piracés.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316843871

1316843874

9781316846117

1316846113

9781316838952

1316838951

OCLC:

1030818524