Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology : Global Politics, Law and International Relations / edited by Ben Wagner [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagner, Ben, editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in human rights.

Research Handbooks in Human Rights Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital communications--Law and legislation.

Digital communications.

Information technology--Law and legislation.

Information technology.

Data protection--Law and legislation.

Data protection.

Civil rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2025]

Summary:

Bringing together perspectives from academia and practice, this second edition Research Handbook provides fresh insights into debates surrounding digital technology and how to respect and protect human rights in an increasingly digital world.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology

Part I Conceptual approaches to human rights and digital technology

1. Sustaining human rights for internet futures

2. There are no rights 'in' cyberspace

3. Beyond national security, the emergence of a digital reason of state(s) led by transnational guilds of sensitive information: the case of the Five Eyes Plus network

4. Online platforms, intermediary responsibility, and human rights: digital copyright as a site of multiple contestations in the EU

Part II Security and human rights: Between cybersecurity and cybercrime

5. Cybersecurity and human rights

6. Cybercrime, human rights and digital politics

7. 'This is not a drill': international law and protection of cybersecurity

8. First do no harm: the potential of harm being caused to fundamental rights and freedoms by state cybersecurity interventions

Part III Internet access and surveillance: assessing human rights in practice

9. Relying on digital principles to complement existing rights: a human rights assessment of the 2022 European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles

10. Surveillance reform: revealing surveillance harms and engaging reform tactics

Part IV Automation, trade and freedom of expression: embedding rights in technology governance

11. Liability and automation in socio-technical systems

12. Digital technologies, human rights and global trade? Expanding export controls of surveillance technologies in Europe, China and India

13. Policing 'online radicalization': the framing of Europol's Internet Referral Unit

Part V Actors' perspectives on human rights: how can change happen?

14. When private actors govern human rights

15. International organizations and digital human rights.

16. Recognizing children's rights in relation to the digital environment: challenges of voice and evidence, principle and practice

17. Silencing identities: LGBTI rights in the digital age

18. Digital cultural sovereignty: navigating the digital landscape of European Cultural Heritage Institutions with a decolonial lens

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781035308514

1035308517

OCLC:

1500772577