Australian Government’s Human Rights and Technology Issues Paper
The Issues Paper explores the rapid rise of new technology and how it affects the human rights of everyone in Australia.
While data can be a force for good that unlocks new knowledge, the complexity of the shifting digital ethics landscape can result in declining trust and trustworthiness. When it comes to digital privacy, we need to think far beyond traditional notions of security and consent to consider how data collection and use impacts our autonomy, power and individual agency. In the era of ever-increasing data volumes, how can we exercise our human rights and what are our responsibilities to protect our privacy?
Keywords: Digital Trust and Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Digital Ethics, Digital Economy, Digital Future Society, Mobile World Capital Barcelona.
The Issues Paper explores the rapid rise of new technology and how it affects the human rights of everyone in Australia.
Cybersecurity is a central focus for Télécom ParisTech and represents one of its research areas: Digital Trust.
The UN Special Rapporteurs on freedom of opinion and expression, the situation of human rights defenders, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association, reinforced the notion that States must ensure that human rights are respected and protected in the digital arena.