JCHR Report: The Right to Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution
On 3 November 2019, the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published a report on The Right to Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution. The report highlights ways in...
Why the Digitization of Welfare States is a Pressing Human Rights Issue
In this blog post, Director of NYU Law’s Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project, Christiaan van Veen, discusses a report presented by United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty...
Protecting the right to privacy against doxxing: injunction as the only effective means
Doxxing refers to the act of researching one’s private information (e.g. home address) and then exposing it publicly (usually by posting it on the internet). It is a form of...
Police Use of Automated Facial Recognition Technology: an Emerging Challenge for Human Rights
Earlier this week, the High Court at Cardiff held that police use of automated facial recognition technology (AFR) is lawful. This is the first time that any court in the...
The Human Rights Implications of China’s Social Credit System
The issue of importing human rights to the digital sphere, especially in the context of state surveillance, has elicited extensive debate. China’s social credit system is the epitome of the...
The Extremism Database is in Breach of the European Convention on Human Rights
On 24 January 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR) delivered its judgment in the case of Catt v. the UK and found that police powers to retain...
Canadian Children have a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy at School
In R. v. Jarvis, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that children can reasonably expect that they will not be the subject of surreptitious recording by their teachers at school....
Under India’s New Intermediary Rules, Fundamental Rights Take Backstage
The Indian Government’s Information Technology Ministry had recently invited comments on proposed amendments to the existing guidelines for intermediaries mainly governing how social networks (and other intermediaries) facilitate the flow...
India’s Expanding Surveillance Scheme Violates the Right to Privacy
On 20 December, 2018, the Ministry of Home Affairs in India issued an office order authorising a plethora of security and intelligence agencies to intercept, monitory and decrypt all personal...
Aadhaar Verdict: A Middle Path
The Supreme Court of India has emerged as a strong force in safeguarding the Constitutional values, and has had a memorable term of landmark verdicts, dealing with questions that relate...
Mind the Gap: the Privacy Void in Brazilian’s Public Transport
In April 2018, the agreement entered into between ADMobilize and ViaQuatro, the administrator of the yellow line of the São Paulo subway, enabled the use of a technology to collect...
South Africa decriminalises the private use, possession and cultivation of cannabis
On 18 September 2018, after more than a decade of perseverance by Mr Gareth Prince, his efforts finally saw fruition: the Constitutional Court of South Africa decriminalised the use, possession...
