{"id":7723,"date":"2019-11-29T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dataethics.eu\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2019-11-29T11:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T11:43:23","slug":"how-to-tackle-human-rights-in-the-age-of-data-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dataethics.eu\/da\/how-to-tackle-human-rights-in-the-age-of-data-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Tackle Human Rights In The Age of Data and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our human rights are at stake in the age of surveillance capitalism. Private companies are not bound by human rights law, as states are, but operate in a grey zone between corporate responsibility, data ethics and human rights. A new book and a new report focus on human rights in the digital age and give advice on how to proceed to safeguard our individual freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn our digital lives, the arm of the market extends far into the private sphere and into our most personal domains. Companies know a lot about where we are, who we are, what our interests are, and they can therefore influence our thoughts and actions, without our consent or knowledge,\u201d<\/em> says Rikke Frank J\u00f8rgensen, the editor of ‘Human Rights in The Age of Platforms<\/a>‘ and senior researcher at the Danish Institute of Human Rights:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe different services know a lot about us and we know nothing about them and their practices. There is a fundamental asymmetry in knowledge. And knowledge is power.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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The book is published by MIT Press, and the 11 chapters are written by internationally renowned researchers in law, human science and social science are brought together in a tale of a common global challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are essentially two approaches to solving the problem. The first approach is for companies to voluntarily ensure the protection of rights through self-regulation, codes of conduct, cooperation agreements and the like. The second solution requires that the state regulates the practices of the platforms and secure human rights through legislation. Whereas many has relied on the first model for a long time, there is now increasing pressure on government regulation,\u201d<\/em> Rikke Frank J\u00f8rgensen says.<\/p>\n

Concrete Advise to Investors, Companies and Governments<\/strong><\/p>\n

In October 2019, the Canadian company Element AI partnered with the Mozilla Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation to convene a workshop on the human rights approach to AI governance, to determine what concrete actions could be taken in the short term to help ensure that respect for human rights is embedded into the design, development, and deployment of AI systems. It their report, ‘Closing the Human Rights Gap in AI Governance’<\/a>, they recommend;<\/p>\n

\"\"Investors Can:<\/p>\n