New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice

New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice

Author: Molly K. Land

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1107179637

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Provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. This title is also available as Open Access.


New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice

New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice

Author: Molly K. Land

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1316846113

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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.


Technologies of Human Rights Representation

Technologies of Human Rights Representation

Author: Alexandra S. Moore

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2022-02-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1438487118

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The speed of technological development, from cell phones to artificial intelligence, opens up exciting new opportunities for promoting human flourishing. It also raises grave risks, threatening not only personal privacy and dignity but also our collective survival. Technologies of Human Rights Representation brings together three fields of research critical to securing our future: changing technologies, human rights, and representation. For each of these fields, this book asks key questions: How can we open the black box of technological advances so that we can more fully understand their effects upon our lives? What can we do to make sure that these effects align with the values of human rights? And how does the way we talk about technology and rights—from military reports and corporate marketing to human rights reports and poetry—amplify or diminish our capacity both to understand and to control what happens next? Contributors from anthropology, communications, criminology, global studies, law, literary and cultural studies, and women and gender studies bring diverse methodological approaches to these crucial questions.


The Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences and Human Rights

The Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences and Human Rights

Author: Marcello Ienca

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-26

Total Pages: 862

ISBN-13: 1108809391

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Debates on the human-rights implications of new and emerging technologies have been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework for the complex issues involved. This volume provides that framework, bringing a multidisciplinary and international perspective to the evolution of human rights in the digital and biotechnological era. It delves into the latest frontiers of technological innovation in the life sciences and information technology sectors, such as neurotechnology, robotics, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence. Leading experts from the technological, medical, and social sciences as well as law, philosophy, and business share their extensive knowledge about the transformation of the rights framework in response to technological innovation. In addition to providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international state-of-the art descriptive analysis, the volume also offers policy recommendations to protect and promote human rights in the context of emerging socio-technological trends.


Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology

Author: Ben Wagner

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1785367722

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In a digitally connected world, the question of how to respect, protect and implement human rights has become unavoidable. This contemporary Research Handbook offers new insights into well-established debates by framing them in terms of human rights. It examines 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, its contributions draw on law, political science, international relations and even computer science and science and technology studies.


Life 3.0

Life 3.0

Author: Max Tegmark

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1101946601

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New York Times Best Seller How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues—from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.


Human Rights and Emerging Technologies

Human Rights and Emerging Technologies

Author: Daniele Ruggiu

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0429955367

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What is the state of current European governance on new and emerging technologies, and where is it going? What is, and what can be, the role of human rights in governance arrangements? These are the main questions that this book answers for both European and non-European scholars. It provides a wide picture of current European governance, notably in biotechnology, nanotechnology and synthetic biology, and discusses the model of Responsible Research and Innovation, which is gaining popularity within the European Union, under a human rights perspective. It shows how human rights can contribute to governance frameworks without posing obstacles to research and innovation. The theory presented in the book is followed by practical guidelines drawn from human rights law. Starting from the Strasbourg Court jurisprudence, it provides a complete review of the wide range of rights that the European Convention on Human Rights protects in light of the challenges of techno-scientific advances. This analysis will come in handy for private actors, policymakers, regulators, as well as judges in solving hard cases raised by techno-scientific progress in the future.


Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies

Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies

Author: John Lannon

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781466619180

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"This book provides a current examination of policy, practice, and theory relating to human rights and information, communications and technology and offers a comprehensive review of the topic and the exponential changes that have occurred through the last decade"-- Prové de l'editor.


European Law and New Health Technologies

European Law and New Health Technologies

Author: Mark L Flear

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 0199659214

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New health technologies promise great things but they also pose significant challenges for governments, particularly around safety concerns, effectiveness, and value for money. This collection analyses the defining features of the relationship between EU law and new technologies, and the roles of risk, rights, ethics, and markets.