In our increasingly digitized world, we can track nearly everything. Companies are tracking workers’ keystrokes, and police departments are using facial recognition to monitor people’s actions and movements.
This type of digital surveillance poses a threat to human rights, and opens the door to enormous potential abuse.
The United Nations (UN) has publicly condemned arbitrary and unlawful digital surveillance as an infringement on human rights. David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, called for a moratorium on the global sales and transfer of digital surveillance tools until we can put legal policies in place to hold organizations and governments accountable for how these tools are being used.
