The U.N. Human Rights Council could take a big step this month toward protecting privacy rights around the world. At its current session, the HRC plans to vote on whether to appoint an independent ...

Release of the Export Controls and Human Rights Initiative Code of Conduct highlights U.S. efforts to prevent censorship, privacy violations, and misuse of surveillance technology On March 30, 2023, ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that enabling governments to access everyone's encrypted messages is a human rights violation. It probably won't stop them from continuing to try, ...

Several UN rights experts raised serious concerns on Monday in a joint statement over the increasing use of intrusive surveillance technologies globally and their normalization in everyday life, ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) raised concerns Tuesday about the draft Cybercrime Treaty of the United Nations over possible human rights violations. A UN Committee released the latest draft of the Treaty ...

United Nations, New York, 24 June 2024 – The world must respond to the harm caused by the spread of online hate and lies while robustly upholding human rights, United Nations Secretary- General ...

While some American officials continue to attack strong encryption as an enabler of child abuse and other crimes, a key European court has upheld it as fundamental to the basic right to privacy. The ...

Philip Alston, a distinguished professor at New York University School of Law, said in an interview with this newspaper on the 16th of last month, “AI is invading privacy and being used as a control ...

Britain’s spy agencies violated the privacy rights of two foreign nationals living outside the UK as part of the country’s programme of bulk surveillance, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.