New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice

New technological innovations offer significant opportunities to promote and protect human rights. At the same time, they also pose undeniable risks. In some areas, they may even be changing what we mean by human rights. The fact that new technologies are often privately controlled raises further questions about accountability and transparency and the role of human rights in regulating these actors. This volume - edited by Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson - provides an essential roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. It offers cutting-edge analysis and practical strategies in contexts as diverse as autonomous lethal weapons, climate change technology, the Internet and social media, and water meters. This title is also available as Open Access.

1. The promise and peril of human rights technology Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson; Part I. Normative Approaches to Technology and Human Rights: 2. Safeguarding human rights from problematic technologies Lea Shaver; 3. Climate change, human rights, and technology transfer: normative challenges and technical opportunities Dalindyebo Shabalala; 4. Judging bioethics and human rights Therese Murphy; 5. Drones, automated weapons, and private military contractors: challenges to domestic and international legal regimes governing armed conflict Laura A. Dickinson; Part II. Technology and Human Rights Enforcement: 6. The utility of user generated content in human rights investigations Jay D. Aronson; 7. Big data analytics and human rights: privacy considerations in context Mark Latonero; 8. The challenging power of data visualization for human rights advocacy John Emerson, Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Anshul Vikram Pandey; 9. Risk and the pluralism of digital human rights fact-finding and advocacy Ella McPherson; Part III. Beyond Public/Private: States, Companies, and Citizens: 10. Digital communications and the evolving right to privacy Lisl Brunner; 11. Human rights and private actors in the online domain Rikke Frank Jorgensen; 12. Technology, self-inflicted vulnerability, and human rights G. Alex Sinha; 13. The future of human rights technology: a practitioner's view Enrique Piraces; Index.