As AI development and adoption accelerates, without proper due diligence and human rights- centered design, issues of bias and discrimination are replicated and exacerbating existing inequalities.
In high demand, commercial spyware vendors' surveilance technologies are getting increasingly invasive, as governments acquire and deploy them to enroach on fundamental rights and the civic space.
Despite the incompatibility of their business models with human rights, the biggest technology companies conitnue to exercise market dominance and shape our lives with little to no accountability.
Despite their shattering impacts on people's human rights and daily lives, the practice of internet shutdowns persists and is even evolving as governments explore more targeted and sophisticated tactics.
In-depth research, reports, papers and legal analysis on technology’s intersection with fundamental rights and freedoms.
Expert guidance and advice for non-profits and funders making/seeking interventions to counter the negative impacts of technologies on human rights. We also support the private sector (specifically SMEs and startups) to better understand the human rights risks of their technologies and protect their customers.
We support and coordinate community building and organising to strengthen collective efforts to counter the harmful human rights impacts of digital technologies from surveillance tech to digital platforms.
