Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology: Global Politics, Law and International Relations

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In a digitally connected world, the question of how to respect, protect and fulfil human rights has become unavoidable. Uniting research from scholars and practitioners, this contemporary Handbook offers new insights into well-established debates surrounding digital technologies by framing them in terms of human rights. An international group of expert contributors explore the issues posed by the management of key Internet resources, the governance of its architecture, the role of different stakeholders, the legitimacy of rule-making and rule-enforcement, and the exercise of international public authority over users. Highly interdisciplinary, the Handbook draws on law, political science, and international relations, as well as computer science and science and technology studies in order to engage with human rights aspects of the digitally connected world. The chapters examine in depth current topics relating to human rights and security, internet access, surveillance, automation, trade, and freedom of expression. This comprehensive and engaging Handbook will be vital reading for both researchers and students in law, human rights, international politics, international relations and technology studies. Policy-makers seeking an understanding of the state of human rights in technology will also find this book a highly useful resource. Contributors include: W. Benedek, D. Bigo, D. Brodowski, G. Contissa, P. de Hert, M. Dunn Cavelty, T. Engelhardt, B. Farrand, M I. Franklin, M.I. Ganesh, M. Graham, S. Horth, L. Jasmontaite, R.F. Jørgensen, C. Kavanagh, M.C. Kettemann, D. Korff, G. Lansdown, E. Light, S. Livingstone, A. Millikan, J.A. Obar, G. Sartor, G. Sobliye, A. Third, M. Tuszynski, K. Vieth, B. Wagner, T. Wetzling, M. Zalnieriute Front Matter Copyright Contents List of contributors Introduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology PART I: CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY 1. Human rights futures for the internet 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. Digital copyright and human rights: a balancing of competing obligations, or is there no conflict? 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: ASSESSINGHUMAN RIGHTS IN PRACTICE 9. Access to the Internet in the EU: a policy priority, a fundamental, a human right or a concern for eGovernment? 10. Reflections on access to the Internet in Cuba as a human right 11. Surveillance reform: revealing surveillance harms and engaging reformtactics 12. Germany’s recent intelligence reform revisited: a wolf in sheep’s clothing? PART IV: AUTOMATION, TRADE AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: EMBEDDING RIGHTS IN TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE 13. Liability and automation in socio-technical systems 14. Who pays? On artificial agents, human rights and tort law 15. Digital technologies, human rights and global trade? Expanding export controls of surveillance technologies in Europe, China and India 16. Policing ‘online radicalization’: the framing of Europol’s Internet Referral Unit PART V: ACTORS’ PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS: HOW CAN CHANGE HAPPEN? 17. When private actors govern human rights 18. International organizations and digital human rights 19. Recognizing children’s rights in relation to digital technologies: challenges of voice and evidence, principle and practice 20. Digital rights of LGBTI communities: a roadmap for a dual human rights framework Index